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Herr J. Sparre- Schneider,* which in a separate form may not 

 be easily available. The localities, it will be seen, range from 

 latitude 66° 30' to 70°, and include the famous Sydvaranger, to 

 reach which the traveller must proceed round the North Cape 

 to Vadso. 



Those with an asterisk I myself met with at Alten. 



In conclusion, I may add that the immediate neighbourhood 

 of Bergen, for butterflies, is unproductive; though all British 

 observers I have met this year agree that the season in Norway 

 generally has been peculiarly poor in butterflies. I spent most of 

 the 27th at the very pretty suburban resort of Fjosanger, but, 

 though well-wooded and with heathy tracts, covered with bracken 

 and heather now coming into bloom, I saw nothing beside the 

 commonest wayside butterflies — a scarcity already noted by me 

 thirteen years ago, when in the whole course of a wet August 

 (1893) I only met with three species of butterflies, two of them — 

 Erebia ligea and Lyccena argas {=■ cegon, Bergstr.), near the 

 same locality. 



I append the following notes on the principal Arctic species 

 collected : — 



Pieris napi. — The males taken at Abisko are large aud strongly 

 marked on the under side. The females are fine examples of the var. 

 bryonicE, with a deep tawny-primrose wash on the upper side of the 

 wings. Most examples met with were worn more or less, this being 

 the case especially with the females. 



C'olias nastes, var. wenlandi. — Seven at Abisko only, whereit must 

 have been plentiful, and an early arrival. The females on the wing bear 

 a striking resemblance to those of C. phicomone of the Swiss Alps, but the 

 discoidal spots on the upper wings are elongated, and seldom approach 

 the roundness common to the spots on those of Central European and 

 Pyreneau forms. Staudinger retains this as a var. of the Greenland 

 nastes ; Lampa and the Swedish entomologists, following Zetterstedt, 

 maintain it as a separate species. 



C.hecia ( = var. siditelma, Auriv.). — The same relationship suggests 

 itself with edma, but with a similar reduction of the upper wing-spots, 

 which in some specimens are actually oceilated. The spots also differ 

 in intensity until I find one very small male in which they have 

 disappeared altogether ; while, further, the distinguishing features of 

 C. boothii, Curtis, of which hecla was supposed to be a variety — the 

 narrow unveined border and greenish tint of the wings generally — are 

 noticeable. Lampa describes an ab. of the female, which he cahs 

 ■'undahli, apparently answering somewhat to this male, of which the 

 colour inclines to pale ochre-gold, with the yellow spots between the 

 third and fourth uervure wanting ; perhaps this male from Alten is 

 the correlative of this form. 



Lyccena optilete, var. cyparissus. — Comparing Lapland and Alten 

 specimens with those in my collection from the Central Alps, I find 



- (Extract from Tromso Museum Yearbook 15, 1893 ; Sj'dvarangera 

 Lepidoptera {ib. 18). Tillseg til Tromso Lepidopt. {ib. 23). 



