b ENTOMOLOGICAL TRAVELS IN NORWAY. 



travel, and also considering that the forward season rendered 

 aii early appearance of the desiderated species, and the possi- 

 bility of its capture, not improbable, I resolved to venture on 

 a digression to the locality. 



On the 29th I left Christiania, taking the railway to 

 Eidsvold, and then the steamer on the Mjosen to Hamar, a 

 pieasant little town, which is very perceptible from a distance 

 owing to the ruins of its old cathedral, enthroned on the end 

 of a peninsular which projects far into the lake : this cathedral 

 was destroyed by the Swedes in the year 1567. From this 

 point I would willingly have availed myself of the railway 

 recently opened at Elverum ; but it chanced to be Ascension- 

 day, and since on this pious railway no trains run on Sunday 

 or Feast-days, I was obliged to continue my journey by 

 carriole, as the idea of waiting till the next day appeared a 

 blameable waste of time, more especially as the weather was 

 splendid, and such weather is not of long continuance in 

 Norway. So I proceeded from Hamar to the village Vang, 

 and past its very ugly new church, in an easterly direction 

 through an undulating country, partly clothed with wood 

 and marsh, and partly well cultivated, for a distance of about 

 eight German miles till in the neighbourhood of Loiten, the 

 church of which place, built on an eminence, is visible for a 

 considerable distance. In the vicinity of Loiten the locality 

 of Jutta was to be looked for. About a quarter of a mile 

 from this place I readily found at Sigstadt a most hospitable 

 reception, although it was already past midnight. The next 

 morning I returned to the church of Loiten, and then soon 

 came to a fir-wood to the north of it, and there found a 

 marshy brook and by it a peat moss of inconsiderable extent, 

 the promised locality. I sought here for a long time, but in 

 vain ; I took all sorts of things, but not what I was looking 

 for \ at last I caught a glimpse of a black buttterfly reeling 



