18 MY FIRST VISIT TO THE ENGADINE. 



the magnificent semi-panorama before us. There were several 

 large patches of snow considerably below us, and a little tarn 

 lay at the foot of the ridge, which screened the Morteratsch 

 glacier from our view, whilst above it the snowy peaks of 

 the Beriiina stood up boldly before us. 



We had been sitting some time on this spot when we 

 descried Dr. Staudinger descending fi'om the Piz Languard 

 with a celerity and sure-footedness perfectly marvellous to 

 witness ; in a ver}^ few minutes from his leaving the summit 

 he was beside us, and I then returned him the larvae he had 

 handed to me the previous evening. He soon left us to 

 collect some of the|numerous insects peculiar to so great an 

 elevation, and we took our way back to Pontresina. One 

 very pretty Saxifrage we noticed, nestling close to a rock 

 near one of the patches of snow, and as we were descending, 

 our guide collected from a rocky crag a piece of Gnaphalium 

 Leontupodlum, — not, however, fully in bloom. 



In the evening Herr von Heinemann, who had been in 

 another direction, gave me some larvae oi Lyonetia frigida- 

 riella. I was fortunately able to describe this larva, but they 

 were all so nearly full fed that I despaired of being able to 

 send any to England to be figured, and did not attempt it. 

 The post takes three days between the Engadine and Lon- 

 don, which is too long a period for many of the smaller 

 larvae. 



The followin<2; raornino; we left Pontresina for Samaden, 

 where we took the diligence. Professor Hering and Herr 

 Schmidt also travelled by the same diligence to Silvaplana, 

 where they intended to spend their last day in the Engadine. 

 We soon mounted the hill behind Silvaplana and made for 

 the Julier Pass, and thus terminated " My First Visit to the 

 Engadine." 



