126 GHENT TO GLOGAU, ETC. 



In the evening Herr Dohrn took me to Dr. Staudinger's, 

 and on pulling the bell at the Doctor's door the handle 

 came off in my friend's hand, so that on Dr. Staudinger 

 opening the door, the first proceeding was to present him 

 with his own bell-handle. I am thus particular in men- 

 tioning this circumstance, for fear any incorrect version 

 should get abroad which should represent the President 

 of the Entomological Society of Stettin as a filcher of door- 

 knockers. Dr. Staudinger is a young Lepidopterist of ex- 

 traordinary energy, favourably known to the scientific world 

 by his " Dissertatio Entomologica, de Sesiis agri Beroli- 

 nensis " ; the previous summer he had collected diligently in 

 Corsica, where he obtained a great number of the larvae of 

 that rare butterfly Papilio Hospiton (these were emerging 

 freely from the pupse at the end of May when we called). 

 Among the interesting Micros I obtained from Dr. Stau- 

 dinger, I may mention Euplocamus Morellus, bred from 

 decayed wood ; Gelechia jjlebejella and dryadella from the 

 Island of Corsica, the former especially interesting, it being 

 a species nearly allied to Terrella (intermediate between it 

 and Senectella), which Zeller established in the Isis, 1847, p. 

 850, from a single specimen; a new Gelechia, intermediate 

 between Populella and Scintillella; and a new ColeopJwra. 

 Dr. Staudinger is now engaged on a paper containing the 

 results of his labours, on which account I omit a description 

 here of these novelties. Dr. Staudinger has determined on 

 an Entomological campaign in Iceland ! a bold undertaking, 

 but I fear not likely to be a profitable one; I trust next 

 summer either as he goes there, or on his return, we shall 

 see him in London. 



This completed my visits to the Berlin Lepidopterists, 

 and the following morning we departed for Glogau; the 

 railway ran through a sandy district covered with pine-forests, 

 and it was only in the immediate vicinity of the towns we 

 passed that the land showed any signs of cultivation ; at 



