MY SECOND VISIT TO THE ENGADINE. 



By H. T. Staintox, F.R.S. 



The readers of ** The Entomologist's Annual for 1866" need 

 not to be told that my four days' sojourn at Pontresina in 

 July, 1865, had rendered me extremely desirous to pay a 

 second visit to the Engadine. 



I had hoped to have carried out this intention in 1866, but 

 unfojtiinately the contest then going on between Italy and 

 Austiia necessitated tlie presence of Swiss troops near the 

 southern frontier, and I apprehended that the hotels in the 

 Engadine might be inconveniently crowded ; so that after 

 staying at Chur some days and visiting Churwalden, and 

 even driving as far as Lenz, I resolutely turned my back on 

 the Engadine and followed up the Vorderrhein valley to 

 Dissentis and Sedi-un, and over the Oberalp Pass to Ander- 

 matt. 



My determination this year had been early made to revisit 

 the Engadine, and to devote a longer time to the exploration 

 of its beauties. Three of the Stettin Lepidopterists had also 

 determined to make it the ground of their Swiss tour lov 

 1870 ; and though 1 feared Dr. Staudinger with his " Cata- 

 logue," and Herr von Heinemann with his work in hand on 

 the " Tineina of Germany and Switzerland," were much 

 too occupied to venture on an Alpine excursion, yet I hoped 

 to meet some of my Munich correspondents ther \ as well 

 as the trio from Stettin. I had heard that the hot weather 

 had prevailed in Switzerland as well as in England, and that 



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