14 ENTOMOLOGICAL TRAVELS IN NORWAY. 



grew many bushes of Alnus incana, and here I found many 

 Geometridce, which unfortunately were almost all injured by 

 the torrents of rain of the previous day. Above the Herds- 

 man's Cottage, around which was a luxuriant growth of 

 mountain plants, I clambered up, near the three beautiful 

 falls formed by the Ister springing from the precipitous rocks, 

 to the top of the Fjeld, on the west side of which, between 

 two bare points of rock, lay the blue masses of a glacier. 

 Close to this were beautiful green meadows, which probably 

 earlier in the season might have furnished a rich collecting- 

 ground, like those at the southern side of the Fjeld, which, 

 placed at a greater elevation, were covered with broken 

 rocks. 



From Yeblungsnaes I proceeded by a small steamboat to 

 Molde, where I transferred myself to the steamer going from 

 Trondhjem to Hamburg, which, after a stoppage of a day 

 and a half at Bergen, brought me, on the 10th of August, 

 back again to Hamburg. 



[The special enumeration of the 166 species, with accounts 

 of their habits, peculiar markings, &c., with the descriptions of 

 the six new species, is naturally too lengthy, however inte- 

 resting, to be introduced here.] 



