: AN ENTOMOLOGICAL TRIP TO CORSICA. 175 
Corte is certainly one of the most picturesquely situated 
towns I have ever seen. It is full of beautiful old eighteenth- 
century houses with fine wrought ironwork staircases, and an 
interesting church with a well-carved pulpit. Hxcepting, per- 
haps, Tangiers, it is the most malodorous place I have ever 
been in, and the Hotel du Nord, where we stayed, is, to say the 
least of it, primitive in the extreme; our bedroom—for we had 
to share a room for the first two days—proved indeed to be a 
most happy hunting-ground, and quite a collection of various 
orders of insects was made here! All the same, for those who 
are not too particular, and do not mind roughing it a bit, Corte 
is an enchanting spot, and once outside the town, in the beautiful 
gorges of the Restonica and Tavignano, one very soon forgets 
the smells and disagreeables, for the romantic valleys are made 
quite lovely by the mountains and chestnut trees all round. 
Butterflies, though not generally abundant, were certainly 
more advanced here than at Vizzavona. On the rough ground 
round the town Satyrus semele var. aristeus was not uncommon 
—all males and quite fresh. A few Pontia daplidice were noticed, 
and odd specimens of Papilio machaon, C. edusa, Pieris rape, 
and P. brassice, the two latter species rather frequent, haunting 
the small vegetable gardens outside the town; while in one 
place some very small P. icarus, Carcharodus alcee, and 
P. astrarche var. calida turned up. 
Next day we ascended the Restonica Gorge. D. pandora 
occurred occasionally, and some way up the valley D. paphia, 
with var. immaculata and var. valezina, was rather common and 
fond of sitting on the leaves of the chestnut trees. Here also, 
getting up off the path, S. neomiris occurred not infrequently, 
and C. corinna, too, was common and quite fresh. A large dark 
butterfly, when captured, proved to be Hugonia polychloros, the 
only one I saw in Corsica; and at one spot by the roadside two 
or three specimens of Polyommatus baton were taken, and the 
first fresh P. var. tigeluus noted. Nearer the town, as we came 
home, H. ida and LE. tithonus were both rather frequent amongst 
some bramble bushes. 
The Tavignano Gorge, up which we went on the 7th, and in 
which we spent a most delightful day, proved to be the best 
place round Corte for butterflies. C.corinna in beautiful con- 
dition was very abundant, with plenty of fine, darkly-marked 
C. var. eleus and occasional S. var. aristeus, including the first 
female. Higher up S. neomiris became quite common, and I was 
soon able to take as many as I wanted. Magnificently fresh 
D. pandora were constantly seen, always sitting on the tall red 
thistle heads. The majority of the specimens which I took here 
and at Vizzavona have very little silver on the under side of the 
hind wing; they nearly all tend to ab. paupercula. Most of 
the specimens have the silver reduced to a row of pin-pricks, 
