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what we should call fine dark varieties, without, however, anything 

 extreme ; Selene was especially dark and small at Bossekop, but what 

 I note here is that there was much less uniformity of colour and 

 markings than there would be amongst a similar number of English 

 specimens. E. Emhla and polaris varied in extent of ocellation after 

 the manner of Erelias, on the whole, I think, rather more than most 

 species do in any one locality. As to the Erehias, an examination of 

 the appendages of a considerable number of Disa and Evihla shows 

 the distinctions noted by me to be very constant, and the eggs are 

 abundantly distinct. Medusa, var. polaris, did not present one ex- 

 ample of "Asiatic " neuration that is so frequent in the mid-European 

 forms. 



Besides the immediate vicinity of Bossekop, we found time for 

 only flying visits to neighbouring localities. We spent a night at a 

 farmhouse (Tongen) at the foot of the Reipasvara, where the Ejby-elv 

 joins the Alten-elv. The chief outcome of this excursion was a good 

 wetting on the Eeipasvara, a mountain with a wide moorland top that 

 promised good things had the weather allowed ; nor shall we soon 

 forget the state of high spate in which we found the Ejby-elv, and 

 how our guide succeeded in precipitating therein all our belongings, 

 luckily a mere light skirmishing outfit ; and I must not fail to record 

 the heroic efforts of my companion by which they were retrieved, 

 incidentally rescuing our guide from a position of no little danger. 

 On a later date, the river having risen still higher, and swamped the 

 approaches to the temporary footbridge, we had to resort to primitive, 

 if not picturesque, expedients to effect a crossing. Several moths 

 occurred here that were not seen near Bossekop. C. Ilecla inhabited 

 flats by the Ejby-elv, and a Chionohas was seen that was more likely 

 Bore than Noma, but it was not captured. 



We also visited Kaafiord, where we stayed a night at the house 

 of Herr 0. Kjeldsberg, in quarters much more luxurious than we 

 expected to meet with so far within the Arctic Circle. Kaafiord is 

 properly a short narrow arm of the Aitenfiord, some ten or twelve 

 miles to the west of Bossekop, but the name is usually applied to the 

 village and mines on its shores. The character of the country here is 

 considerably different from that at Bossekop, the hills are closer, the 

 valleys narrower, whilst at Bossekop the great open valley, anciently 

 the estuary of the Alten river, is the dominating characteristic. 



At Kaafiord we found C. HecJa, E. ligea, also such moths as 

 Setina irrorella, Arctiafiilifjinusa, Eiipifhecia venosata, Sphegia cioUci- 



