6 MY SECOND VISIT TO THE ENGADINE. 



petala, unfortunately then out of bloom ; a careful and pro- 

 longed search in every likely jDlace to find some straggling 

 blossoms only furnished me with one solitary flower, a flower 

 I had always longed to see and which I then beheld for the 

 first time. Flying amongst the plant, and so constantly 

 settling on it, that I felt convinced there was some intimate 

 connection between the plant and the insect, I observed Pam- 

 plusia monticolana, Duponchel.* This insect I afterwards 

 found to be one of the greatest nuisances at Maria ; I was 

 constantly catching it to see what it was, its flight not being 

 sufficiently distinctive to enable me to recognize it with cer- 

 tainty. At Pontresina, where there was no Dryas, I saw 

 none of the Pamplusia. 



Here I also met with a pale ochreous JElachisfa, the 

 Reinemanni of Frey. Sitting on a flower of Chrysanthe- 

 mum leucanthemtim was a showy green Butalis {ampJiony- 

 cella), and here I may notice that I constantly observed that 

 the species of Butalis in the Engadine had a great fancy for 

 the flowers of Compositcv, and I got into the habit of looking 

 on all the large, showy composite flowers to see if they would 

 furnish me with a Butalis. Amongst a small Daphne, 

 which I presume must be Daphne alpina, I met with a 

 specimen of Ancliinia laureolella; and this, with two speci- 

 mens of Gelechia tripunctella and two of Penthina Char- 

 pentiera7ia, was my morning's work. 



In the afternoon I revisited the same locality, and finding 

 that the AncJiinia laureolella was freely on the wing from 



* In Staudinger and Wocke's CatsAogue Alpestrana, Herricli-SchafFer, 

 is given as a synonym for the insect; but Herricli-Schaffer's insect is 

 not the species I mean, which is quite recognizably figured by Duponchel 

 in his fourth supplementary volume, pi. 83, f. 3, under the name of 

 Coccyx monticolana, and has no affinities with the unicolorous Dichro" 

 ramjihce to which Herrich-Schaflfer's Alpestrana seems nearly related. 



