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ENTOMOLOGICAL TRAVELS IN NORWAY. 

 By Dr. Wocke. 



[Translated fi-om "Ein Beitrag zur Lepidoptern Fauna Norwegens," by 

 Dr. Wocke, in the Stettin EntomologiscUe Zeitung, 18G4, pp. 166 — 

 172.] 



When returning from Finmark over the Dovrefjeld on tlie 

 19th and 20th of August, m company with Dr. Staudinger, 

 a nascent desire arose in me at some future time to devote a 

 summer to collecting on those mountains which promised so 

 abundant a harvest. 



In fulfilment of this plan, I left Hamburg on the 24th 

 May, 1862, by the small screw-steamer Falcon; this was 

 unfortunately already rather late, as I afterwards discovered 

 to my sorrow. After a favourable passage I arrived early 

 on the 26th at Christiansand, on the southern extremity of 

 Norway, and made use of the forenoon, that the ship remained 

 in the harbour, for an excursion to the localities already visited 

 on my previous journey. I then pursued my voyage along 

 the south-east coast of the country, and after short stoppages 

 at Arendal and Laurvik I landed on the afternoon of the 

 27th at Christiania. On the following day I paid an early 

 visit to the botanical garden, then in its gayest spring attire ; 

 afterwards I visited my worthy friend Lector Esmark, and 

 ascertained from him the precise locality in wh.j'i he had 

 once captured Chionohas JuHa^ an insect I had never seen 

 alive. Finding that his capture had taken place early in 

 June, and the locality was not far from my intended line of 



