8594 The Zoologist — July, 1873. 



picturesque hill-sides, oveilooliing the sparkling waters of the 

 bay. I came across CEdipoda caeriilans, for the first lime, on this 

 occasion, a species akin to the blue variety of CE. germanica in 

 appearance, but its upper wing is a lighter brown, while its lower, 

 in addition to having no black margin, has a paler and more of a 

 lavender tint. 



October 30. The weather during our stay here continued 

 almost uniformly cloudless and very hot, the thermometer 

 averaging from 90° to 100° in the sun, and the granite rock of 

 the neighbourhood, in many places in a state of disintegration, 

 afforded a warm surface for vegetation, whose growth was corre- 

 spondingly luxuriant, as well as for lizards to bask in and course 

 over. My list of captures this day included Daplidice, Satyrus 

 Tigelius, and QEdipoda caerulans. Chrysomela Banksii, Edusa, 

 and Acridium tataricum were abundant, and both red and blue- 

 winged CEdipoda met with, of which the former were of very 

 small size. My walk again led me to Napoleon's Grotto, and on 

 proceeding further into the macchie, amid the olive- and cactus- 

 clad heights, I observed a large dark butterfly flying over- 

 head, whose species, whether Charaxes Jasius or one of the 

 largest Satyrids, I was unable to determine. Received a present 

 of a fine spray of the Smilax maurilanica, or sarsaparilla plant, 

 which I had previously met with at Bastia, a handsome creeper, 

 whose flowers grow in a thick cluster, and are of a brownish 

 white. 



October 31. Respecting marine productions I ascertained 

 nothing, or at all events very little. My sole success lay in a 

 visit that I paid this morning to the beach below Fort Aspret, 

 where, amid numerous fragmentary conchological remains, I picked 

 up a few ounces, cowries,^c., and two or three sponges and coral- 

 lines from the rocks. A message to the fishermen failed of effect, 

 probably because, as I afterwards learned, the coral fishery lay 

 not in that quarter, but at, or at all events near to, Bonifacio. 

 Following the road that, at the distance of a quarter of a mile from 

 Ajaccio, I turned up the hill between two deep cuttings to the right, 

 and visited the Greek chapel, built precisely in the fashion of an 

 ancient temple, with approach by flight of steps and peristyle. 

 Daisies grew abundantly in its immediate vicinity, but though 

 nearly all were "with crimson crest," they by no means proved 

 " a little flower," as they rivalled ox-eyed daisies in size, and had 



