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A JOURNEY TO FINMARK. 

 By Dr. Wocke and Dr. Staudinger. 



[Translated from the Stettin Entomologische Zeitung, 1861, pp. 325 — 



341.1 



More than a century has elapsed since the immortal Linne 

 explored with indefatigable zeal the plains of Swedish Lap- 

 land, in order to make known to science the botanical and 

 zoological products of that country. Very many excellent 

 naturalists and collectors have, since his time, travelled in 

 Swedish Lapland and have to some extent published the 

 scientific results of their travels. Thus we find at the end 

 of the last century in the Entomological Dissertations of 

 Thunberg a series of publications on the insects of Lapland; 

 PaykuU also and other authors wrote many treatises on them 

 in the Swedish scientific Transactions. Likewise Schneider 

 pubhshed in his '^ Neuestes Magazin fiir die Liebhaber der 

 Entomologie, Stralsund, 1791 — 1794," various memoirs on 

 Lapland Lepidoptera. In this century, besides various 

 treatises by Dalman, Boheman, and others, it was principally 

 Zetterstedt's work, " Insecta Lapponica, Lipsise, 1840," 

 which first gave us a general view of the known Insect 

 Fauna of Lapland. Zetterstedt had repeatedly travelled in 

 Lapland, and as far as I know he was the first and only 

 Entomologist who travelled in the most northern part of 

 Europe, the province of Finmark, and gave us some 



