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weather during the summer we were there ; but no doubt we 

 scarcely obtained two-thirds of the species which are there 

 indigenous. Of the Micro-Lepidoptera south of the Arctic 

 Circle I can say but little, since on our journey to and fro 

 we could not devote much time to collecting ; that notwith- 

 standing this, there are amongst the species collected at 

 Bergen, Throndhjem, and on the Dovre, several new ones, 

 leads to the inference that many new species are vet to be 

 discovered in the wide extent of country there which has 

 never yet been trodden by the foot of a " Lepidopterist." 



In the following enumeration of the individual species, it 

 has been my aim to point out the differences in size and 

 colouring which the influence of climate, soil, food, etc., has 

 caused on those species which occur in other countries, and 

 also their times of appearance and the height above the sea 

 at which they occurred. I have been much assisted by 

 Professor Zeller, who most willingly communicated to me 

 northern specimens from his collection, and also by the sight 

 of a number of Zetterstedt's species forwarded by Professor 

 Boheman. To both these gentlemen I beg to express my 

 best thanks. 



May the appreciation of Natural History be so roused 

 throughout Norway, that a Lepidopterologist may soon arise 

 in that country who will undertake the labour of the investi- 

 gation of his beautiful and insect-aboundino; country, since 

 foreign travellers like ourselves, with all our exertions, can 

 only be expected to furnish fragments. 



Dr. M. F. Wocke. 



