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a large hotel, to await developments ; unfortunately, here the 

 weather got still worse, and for several day the sun was not visible, 

 and there were blinding snowstorms each day at intervals. But 

 on the 13th the sun did break out for a few moments, and happen- 

 ing just then to be down by the side of the lake, I found Erebia 

 lappona beginning to appear in abundance, but by the time 

 I had procured my net the sun had retired, and so had the 

 butterflies, and I only succeeded, under these conditions, in kick- 

 ing up three specimens. On June 14th the weather was worse 

 thau ever, and I began to wonder what it was like further north. 

 Accordingly I rang up on the telephone the ' Turist Station ' 

 Hotel at Abisko, in Lapland, seven hundred and fifty miles 

 distant, and ascertained that the weather was fine there, and 

 that the season was considered an early one. This being the 

 case, I decided I would give up further hopes of Jemtland. 



It was very disappointing not to see certain of the butterflies 

 of this province, which I believe has a rich lepidopterous fauna, 

 and which information I received had led me to expect, but my 

 experience confirmed the essential lesson one must learn with 

 respect to the butterflies of Scandinavia, that it is of not the 

 slightest use going to a district for a few days or a week. If one 

 wants success, it is necessary to be on the ground immediately the 

 species we require emerge, and to remain there until our object 

 is achieved ; which will usually mean a sojourn of several 

 weeks. ^ 



On the afternoon of June 14th, I left Are, bound for Abisko. 

 The Lapland express had not then commenced to run, but by 

 spending a night at each of the excellent railway hotels of Bracke 

 and Boden, travelling by the ordinary train, I reached Abisko 

 quite comfortably on the evening of June 16th. 



Abisko has gone ahead since the days when Mr. Rowland- 

 Brown visited it in 1906, not in all respects to the advantage of 

 the naturalist. The hotel has been enlarged to an extent that, 

 with its "dependences," it will accommodate near on two 

 hundred guests ; and it is usually crowded after July 1st. A 

 station has been built just outside the hotel and named Abisko- 

 jokk, to which one should take one's railway ticket in preference 

 to the station of Abisko, two kilometres further east. The 

 Torne Triiske is now served by a motor-launch, from which I 

 hoped great things, for I was informed that by it I could easily 

 reach the rich localities which undoubtedly exist on the north 

 side of the lake. But I found that this launch was taken up, 

 practically every day, in making excursions to the Lapp camp 

 at the head of the lake, and as it only stayed there an hour or 

 so, and there being no good ground near by, these trips were of 

 not the slightest assistance to me. On one occasion, on July 

 7th, an excursion was made in the launch to the east end of the 

 lake, and Herr and Fraulein Sprongerts, two German ento- 



