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lioping they njight be Frey's Suhniontana, but they all 

 pi'oved to be the common Sor'biella; I took however a single 

 specimen of the Coleophora lepidella, Frey. 



In the evening I visited some Laserpitium plants, on the 

 old Samaden road, which I had noticed were much de- 

 vastated by Depressaria larvas ; I filled a good-sized tin 

 \^ith pieces of the plant infested by these larvae, but these 

 only produced, after I got Ijome, the ordinary Depressaria 

 laserpitii. 



We left Pontresina after breakfast the next moi'ning, and 

 drove over to Samaden, where we found the first news of 

 the actual commencement of hostilities. Sarrebriick had 

 been taken ! We leturned by the Albula Pass, which we 

 then saw for the first time; in the evening we reached Chur. 



V/e spent two days at Zurich, where I had long talks with 

 Professor Frey de omnibus Tineims Helvetica et quibusdam 

 alas; and I had the pleasure of introducing to him my friend 

 Mr. Arthur Grote, whom I had accidentally met at the 

 Hotel Baur au Lac. 



On the Sunday afternoon Professor Frey showed us a 

 short telegraphic communication announcing the battle of 

 W5rth. 



We had still a week to spend in Switzerland, and this was 

 to be devoted to Andermatt — so we went on the next day to 

 Lucerne. There we found such a string of startling tele- 

 giams, with the intimation that Paris was declared in a state 

 of siege, that it seemed problematical whether, after all, 

 our return journey would not be more easily effected via 

 Gei-many than via France. We went on the next day to 

 Andermatt, where we had three days of bad weather; the 

 I'oads were in a dreadful state of mud, rendering excursions 

 anything but pleasant. The larva I there saw of Vanessa 

 Antiopa I have already noticed in the " Entomologist's 



