The Zoologist — July, 1873. 3595 



stems a foot in length. I was disappointed of the sight of a 

 collection of insects this afternoon that were formerly preserved in 

 an educational inslitulion, but removed lately, T was informed, by 

 one of the brothers, to France. However, I inspected the birds and 

 antiquities presented by Prince Lncien Buonaparte to the " petit 

 seminaire," and some minerals and shells of Corsica, the donation 

 of an "eveque" to the same establishment. 



November 1. I went along the shore by the coast road, 

 where, in addition to the enjoyment of beautiful views of the bay, 

 1 found Stalice arliculata displaying its small lilac flowers and 

 heath-like bracts just above the beach, and, by far the prettiest of 

 all, the tiny Leucojum roseum, a species of snowdrop peculiar to 

 Corsica, whose pinkish white blossoms exhale a delicate perfume. 

 I never saw this exquisitely lovely little flower except on the short 

 sea-turf at intervals along this road, where it blossomed in great 

 profusion. Respecting the butterfly far excellence of Corsica, 

 Papilio Hospiton, once, and once only, did I see it on a bank of 

 crumbling granite close to the shore this morning, where it settled, 

 with its wings flapping, not suflSciently near for me to make a cast 

 with the net before it rose again and was seen no more, but still 

 I could discern that its markings were darker, and slightly differing 

 from the ordinary type of Machaon. The afternoon was occupied 

 in visiting the chief sight of Ajaccio, the birthplace of the first 

 Napoleon, as well as the villa of the Comte Bacciocchi, cham- 

 berlain to the third of the name, where the garden contained a 

 variety of flowers, Daturas nine inches in length, and large bushes 

 of Heliotrope. We then proceeded further in a southerly direction, 

 and Campo d'Oro and the old harbour were the last places we 

 surveyed. 



November 2. Along the coast road again, where I gathered 

 Scilla autumnalis and a blue Echium, besides capturing Conops 

 aculeala, Ammophila holosericea, and two undescribed species 

 of Pompilus. Edusa and its pale variety Helice), Qi. ceerulans, 

 Tryxalis nasuta, Daplidice and S. Tigelius were seen. Atalanta 

 and Cardui also occurred, the former fresh, the latter worn. 



November 3. We walked along the shore in the afternoon, 

 where we saw the Corsican snowdrop in all its beauty once more, 

 a high wind meantime blowing with clouds of dust. 



November 4. To-day we drove out to " Les lies Sanguinaires," 

 distant about ten miles from Ajaccio, at the north-west extremity 



