13 ENTOMOLOGICAL TRAVELS IN NORWAY. 



road that the rolling waters foam over the bank. Separated 

 frequently for some distance by the masses of rock, the 

 roaring waters rush here and there turaultuously together, so 

 that the waves dash up higher than their fall, or, dashed to 

 a million atoms, are borne through the air like steam. 



At Ormen an entire stream rushes from a considerable 

 height into the Roumen, divided by rocks into two neigh- 

 bouring falls. Here the valley narrows to a slender ravine, 

 wliich appears to be closed in by a mighty mountain, and in 

 the lowest recesses of which the sun's rays are scarcely able 

 to penetrate. At last, however, the Roumen flows quietly 

 along, like a clear lake of sea-green w^ater, and beside it the 

 road runs under a leafy canopy of alders. The rocks, not- 

 withstanding, become continually higher, more narrow and 

 steeper : often nearly perpendicular, they send down water- 

 streams everywhere, — a multitude of waterfalls which nature 

 has here brouo'ht too;ether in the most wonderful varietv. 



Digitalu purpurea grew abundantly on the broken rocks, 

 and blackbirds flew sportingly hither and thither. Passing 

 by the foot of the Romanshorn one sees on the left the many- 

 toothed Troldtinderne, whereas the bold picturesque double 

 peak of the former does not come into full view till you 

 reach Veblungsnas. 



At Veblungsnas, which is pleasantly situated on a tongue 

 of land at the furtlier corner of Moldefjord, I sliould have 

 had to have waited three days in order to go to jMolde. I 

 therefore decided to turn back the same day, and made use 

 of the few hours of my stay there in searching for metamor- 

 phoses, of which I found an extremely interesting one, 

 namely, a Dipterous larva, which lived on the underside of 

 the leaves of Vaccinium, imbedded in a sticky slime, an 

 appearance which was also new to me. 



On getting back to Don^baas, I made an excursion in the 



