MY SECOND VISIT TO THE ENGADINE. 7 



4.30 to 5.30, 1 captured nearly 50 of them ; another Eladiista 

 JSeinemanni and another Butalis were the only other cap- 

 tives which fell to my lot. 



The next day we had a few light clouds, which gradually 

 increased in the afternoon. The morning produced 8 Ela- 

 chista Heinemanni, 6 Gelechia tripu?ictella, 1 G. insta- 

 hilella (fancy finding this sea-shore insect some 6000 feet 

 ahove the sea level !), 2 Pleurota bicosfella, 4 Andiinia 

 laureolella, 1 A. grisescens, &c., &c. 



The afternoon -vvas devoted to a visit to the Maloja Pass, 

 which only a little above the head of the Lake of Sils diops 

 down \tvY abruptly on the Italian side. Directly one had 

 descended a little on the southern slope of the pass a different 

 and more luxuriant vegetation was noticed, and the chiff- 

 chaff, whose note we had not heard at Maria, showed that 

 there was also an ornitholoo-ical difference. The light clouds 

 of which I had already spoken prevented us from having the 

 splendid view which we might have had under moi-e favour- 

 able auspices. 



I was in great hopes, having found that Ancliinia laureo- 

 lella was freely on the wing towards evening, that A. grises- 

 ceJi.ij which has always been a rarity, might have a similar 

 habit, but though I easily secured some 40 more of the first- 

 named species I saw none of the latter; I, however, consoled 

 myself with a Bucculatrix aurimaculella and one of B. 

 alpina, Frey. 



The next day I tried some fresh ground, almost over- 

 hanging the Lake of Sils, on the road to Isola, but with the 

 exception of more Gelechia tripunctella (an insect, by the 

 way, that you always find everywhere in these Alpine 

 regions) and a Crambus radiellus I boxed nothing. 



In the afternoon we left Maria (N.B.— to go to Maria 

 again earlier in the season and stop there longer) and pro- 



