ENTOMOLOGICAL TRAVELS IN NORWAY. ly 



evening on to the nearest hill, where I found Crepis hiennis 

 infested with Trypet(B. 



On Monday, July I3th, I continued my journey to 

 Cbi'istiania, through Gudbrandsdal, the valley in which 

 the Laugen runs. The neighbourhood is richly cultivated ; 

 pleasant farmhouses he dotted about to a considerable height 

 u}3 the mountain slopes, above which thick woods clothe the 

 higher points, some of which still showed patches of snow. 



I arrived at Lillehammer, at the northern end of the 

 Mjosen, at mid-day on the 15th, and was obliged to wait 

 there till the next morning when the steamboat would start 

 for Eidsvold. I went immediately, according to my custom, 

 in search of metamorphoses, and as I wandered through the 

 streets I found two lemmings dead, but evidently quite fresh. 

 During my entire journey I have been seeking information 

 respecting this beast, whose natural history abounds in 

 doubtful and marvellous accounts, and had endeavoured to 

 obtain possession of specimens. All the way up to Alten T 

 was told I could have it in any quantity, but nowhere could 

 I, by the most strenuous efforts, obtain even a single specimen. 

 Everywhere I was told that not long ago it had abounded 

 in all the streets and roads in fabulous numbers, and had 

 been trodden on and destroyed in quantities, but no one 

 could give any information as to what had now become of 

 them, or where any were now to be found. No one had 

 attempted to examine these creatures more closely ; all re- 

 marked that they were not obtainable alive, and nothing 

 whatever seemed known accurately respecting their sudden 

 appearance and mysteriously rapid disappearance. 



As I had now ocular testimony of their actual occurrence 

 at the place, I endeavoured to obtain some, and a boy was 

 found, who, for a remuneration, promised to catch some at a 

 mountain slope, where they were still dwelling in holes, 



