A JOURXEV TO FINMARK. O 



frag-mentary notices on its Entomological Fauna. However, 

 what we could learn res})ecting the Lepicloptera of Finmark 

 from this celebrated Professor of Lund, who was specially a 

 Dipterologist, could be but very little, since he travelled 

 in that country much too late, at least for Lepidoptera, being 

 there at the end of July and beginning of xlugust. Besides, 

 we are unable to repose too much confidence in his determi- 

 nations of Lepidoptera, since it is indubitably admitted that 

 the greater part of the Lepidoptera described by him as new 

 had already long ago been published and were frequently 

 species of quite common occurrence. 



After the entomological treasures of Swedish Lapland had 

 been repeatedly ransacked in more recent times by Herr 

 Kretschmar, and Herr Keitel of Berlin, it appeared to me 

 all the more desirable a problem to investigate likewise the 

 entomological treasures of the Norwegian Lapland, — Fin- 

 mark. Nothing therefore could be more desirable than that 

 I should win over to my project my friend Dv. Wocke of 

 Breslau, well known as an extremely clever Lepidopterologist, 

 and in fact during the last year (1860) we effected together 

 this journey to the far north. At Hamburg in the evening of 

 the 4th May we went on board the Norwegian Steamboat 

 " Hakon Jarl," which weighed anchor about midnight, and 

 was to take us to Throndbjem or Trondhjem (Drontheim.) 



Fortunately for us, as also for them, during our first trip 

 to the south coast of Norway there were no ladies on board 

 this (not very comfortably arranged) steamboat, so that we 

 were quartered in the ladies' cabin, which I did not again 

 leave till mid-day on the 7th of May, when we entered the 

 safe harbour of Christiansand. It was not pleasant thoughts 

 on the former fair occupants of the cabin which detained me 

 there, but numerous offerings to Neptune kept me confined 

 to my berth, since the sea divinity did his utmost by the 



