20 ENTOMOLOGICAL TRAVELS IN NORWAY. 



which they quitted at night, and truly I received that very 

 night two specimens in a cage, one of which died as 1 ap- 

 proached Christiania, probably for want of water, but the 

 other, which is probably the first living specimen brought so 

 far to the south, is still alive and hearty. 



For the first few days, though I tried it with many things, 

 it ate only quite freshly-cut grass and clover ; afterwards it 

 ate boiled potatoes, with which I fed it on the whole 

 journey. At present it prefers bread soaked in milk, or 

 other farinaceous food. It was rather sino:ular that from the 

 very first the beast was not savage ; it never attempted to 

 bite, though it had powerful teeth, with which it gnawed its 

 wooden cage, and would sit quietly on the hand without 

 attempting to run away. It is a truly nocturnal animal, and 

 even by candle-light seems to see very badly, and this cha- 

 racter may probably account for some of the peculiarities 

 which are related of it. 



Near Lillehammer I met with Hypochcjeris 7naculata in- 

 fested with Trypeta larvse, from which in a few days I bred 

 Ensina Sonchi. The scenery of the Mjosen bears quite the 

 same character as Gudbrandsdal, of which it is evidently a 

 continuation ; it is not till we reach the railway from Eidsvold 

 to Christiania that we come to hills of a lower aspect. There 

 we had very raw weather with hail and snow, and saw as 

 we travelled along that a sharp frost during the preceding 

 night had cut off the tops of the potatoes. 



Whilst at Christiania, which is beautifully situated at the 

 head of the Fjord of the same name, upwards of 20 miles 

 in length, I was under the greatest obligations to Professor 

 Boeck, and made several excursions with his son Axel, whose 



knowledge of the lower orders of marine fauna is very great. 



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During my excursions from this place by land I found a 



