14 MY SECOND VISIT TO THE EXGADINE. 



Monthly Magazine," but the great feature of the locality 

 ^vas the numerous larvee of Hadena pisi ; you could count 

 them by hundreds, and on all sorts of plants. 



The last afternoon it cleared up a little, and we drove as 

 far as Realp ; but there was this time no chance of good 

 weather for the Furka. 



The mornino; we left Andermatt to return to Lucerne it 

 was splendid — such a brilliant clear sky — it was magnificent ; 

 we could not help regretting that we had not arranged to 

 stop another day, so as to have been able to devote that 

 morning to the Furka. However, as it turned out, it was 

 just as well, for though in the gorge of the SchoUinen, and 

 far below Geschenen, the fine crags and snow patches were 

 seen to the utmost advantage, by the time we left Arasteg 

 the clouds had already begun to form, and ere we reached 

 Fluellen the tops of even very moderate hills were entirely 

 concealed. 



On reaching Lucerne we eagerly sought all the latest news, 

 but except that the French armies had retired upon Metz, 

 we could not ascertain that anything further had occurred 

 since we left Lucerne at the beginning of the week. 



"We therefoi-e resolved to return home by Friederichs- 

 hafen, Frankfort, Cologne and Brussels, which we happily 

 accomplished with little more than a few hours' delay. 



At Brussels Dr. Breyer showed me a recent capture (a 

 specimen of Nonarjria hrevilinea)^ an insect which had pre- 

 viously been unique in the collection of Messrs. C. and 

 J. Fenn. 



On Friday (August 19th) we left Brussels and reached 

 home. 



