12 MY SECOND VISIT TO THE ENGADINE. 



x'^iigast 2ncl, we had another glorious day, and this was 

 devoted to the Val da Fain. The readers of the Annual ot" 

 1866 will recollect the description of the visit to this valley 

 July 13th, 1865. On the present occasion there was no 

 such extraordinary abundance of Rhopalocera^ but one must 

 bear in mind that we had had a precociously forward season, 

 with the hot forcing weather of the early summer, and it was 

 now three weeks later than on the occasion of my previous 

 visit. There was hardly a particle of snow to be seen on the 

 sides of the valley. One noticeable insect was a day-flying 

 Noctua, which specially frequented the flowers of a thick- 

 stemmed red Sednm, sitting there so lazily that they might 

 be quietly boxed ; they were in very good condition. 



I also took one specimen of a conspicuous Depressariaf 

 which I showed to Professor Frey, but which he did not 

 recognize ; he suggested that it might be some late-appearing 

 species, which had fallen to my lot by my visiting tiie 

 locality so late in the season. Since I returned home I find 

 I obtained a specimen of this Depressarittf when at Munich 

 in June, 1868, from Herr PfafFenzeller, under the name of 

 Marmorosella, "in leaves o^ Laserpituun,^' and that I had 

 previously noticed at Ratisbon in Dr. Herrich-Schaffer's 

 collection a " Depressaria marmoroxella^ n. s., e. 1., seeds of 

 Laserpitiiim, bred by himself, Engadine." 



I saw one other specimen in the Val da Fain, but failed to 

 capture it, much to my annoyance. It is perhaps most 

 nearly allied to the Livonian Depressaria hepatariella. 

 None of my other captures on that day were at all note- 

 woi'thy. 



August 3rd was our last day at Pontresina, and we again 

 visited the hillv ground between the Morteratsch and Roseo^ 

 streams. On this occasion I caught several Argyred]ii(Bf 



