AN ENTOMOLOGICAL TRIP TO CORSICA. 1738 
7. ACRORICNUS JUNCEUS, Cress. 
Cryptus junceus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. 1864, p. 295, 
female. 
A pair of this species, which is a true member of the present 
genus, though not hitherto placed here, was sent by Professor 
Riley to the Rev. T. A. Marshall through the United States 
National Museum in 1888, and is now in the British Museum. 
It is similar to A. macrobatus, though much more slender and a 
little smaller with the scutellum, petiolar area of metathorax and 
the legs (except hind femora, trochanters and lower side of their 
cox) pale flavous. Dr. Lewis originally took the female in 
Illinois ; it is poorly figured in the ‘ American Entomologist,’ i. 
1869, p. 187, in the excellent article ‘‘ Wasps and their Habits” 
by Walsh, who had bred this ‘‘ beautiful Ichneumon fly”’ from 
the ‘‘mud dabs”’ of the Fossorial genus Agenia, and noticed its 
‘peculiar and, to us, very agreeable smell of a Humble-bee 
(Bombus).” At lib. cit. iii. 1880, p. 154, the same block is 
reproduced with the information that the species had again been 
bred from Odynerus, this time from Odynerus birenimaculatus, 
Sauss , in New Jersey. 
AN ACCOUNT OF AN ENTOMOLOGICAL TRIP 
TO CORSICA. 
By Gerarp H. Gurney, F.E.S. 
(Concluded from p. 151.) 
Here also HL. jurtina var. hispulla was abundant, and I took 
one very curious pale-bleached specimen. Presently a large 
bright orange looking butterfly got up at my feet, and dashed off, 
only to settle again further on. A careful stalk, and my first 
Argynnis elisa was safely netted—a male, and evidently but 
newly emerged. Almost directly afterwards I saw Mr. Lomax 
wildly pursuing a large butterfly with shouts of ‘‘ Pandora!” 
and sure enough he presently came up triumphantly with a 
magnificent 4pecimen of Dryas pandora. Further along, in a 
hayfield, we saw one of the prettiest entomological sights I have 
ever witnessed—masses of purple knapweed and large pink 
mallows grew everywhere in the field, and on these were great 
numbers of P. cardui, all exquisitely fresh; and as they flew 
from red flower to red flower, their own red wings shining like 
garnets in the sun, with occasional glimpses of blue and grey 
and brown under sides, I felt one could not see a more exquisite 
sight in nature. Butterflies were very numerous hereabouts ; 
some fine big P. icarus shared the knapweed with the cardui, 
and Cenonympha pamphilus var. lyllus was not uncommon, with 
