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7. AcRORicNus JUNCEUS, Cress. 

 Cryptus juncem, 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 

 Eiley 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 

 coxae) pale flavous. Dr. Lewis originally took the female in 

 Illinois ; it is poorly figured in the ' American Entomologist,' i. 

 1869, p. 137, 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 birenimacidatus, 

 Sauss , in New Jersey. 



AN ACCOUNT OF AN ENTOMOLOGICAL TEIP 

 TO CORSICA. 



By Gerard H. Gurney, F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 151.) 



Here also E. jurtina var. hlspulla 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 specimen 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 Coenonympha pamphilus var. lyllus was not uncommon, with 



