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Seteria sericea Triodonta cribeUata Agapanthia insularis 



Nebm Lareymei Attekbus atricornis Lixus submaculatus 



Brachycerus barbarus Drypta emarginata Dichillus Corsicus 



Xanthochroa Raymondi Eeicheia palustris Strophosomus Faai 



Agabus cephalotes Bythinus Myrmido Tachypus cornutu°3 



Anthaxia Corsica Tentyria ligurica Lionychus Sturmi 



Pterostichus ambiguus Helops superbus Phytouomus puuctatus 



Clonus distmctus Asida carinata Parmena Soheri 



Tnchms zonatus Otiorhynchus Corsicus Pachychila ServiUei 



Amaurops Corsicus Hoplia pubicoUis Pimelia Fayrandi 



Harpalus BeUieri Percus Corsicus Agabus binotatus 



November 7. We took the coupee of the diligence on 

 our return journey to Corte, but were delayed about an hour in 

 starting in consequence of the non-arrival of the packet Boco- 

 guano where the real ascent to the Foci commences, is a large 

 old-fashioned village in two or three separate divisions: our 

 appearance excited a good deal of curiosity as we walked on 

 pending the change of horses. The church and the square cam- 

 panile so characteristic of this country, were slightly elevated on 

 a rise above the road, and their bells were bofh ringing for vespers 

 as we passed, occasionally looking back at the clear sky then bathed 

 m the truly magnificent tints of a Corsican sunset. Evening was 

 very cold in this elevated region, and the Forest of Vizzavona pre- 

 sented a weird-like appearance beneath the moon as we descended 

 on the other side. Dining at Vivario we arrived late in the evening 

 at Corte, seen along the numerous windings of the road long before 

 reached, then up its steep suburb, the lights shining above on the 

 scarped precipitous rock on which the citadel and part of the town 

 Acropohs-fashion, are erected. ' 



November 8. Though celebrated in the political history of 

 the island, and in spite of the delicious trout that are taken in its 

 mountain streams, Corte has little to recommend it in itself. It is 

 a dirty, ill-smelling place, several of its houses are six storeys in 

 height, and its streets uneven, and the children wear a pallid and 

 unhealthy appearance ; but the adjacent scenery is fine, and the 

 gorge of the Restonica, though less wild, is not at all unlike the 

 opening of the Via Mala at Thusis. The day was intensely 

 hot, and the atmosphere of the mountain valley confined as 

 we walked up the right bank of the stream, until descending 

 to Its bed, after a short distance, we arrived at two or three 



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