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ford ; New Ross, Wexford (B.H.) ; Cork (B.) ; Kenmare (R.E.D.) ; 

 and the valley of the Roughty, Co. Kerry ; Ardrahan and Moy- 

 cullen, Co. Galway ; and near Sligo. 



Aluctta hexadactyla, L. — Everywhere common throughout 

 Ireland, and sometimes extremely numerous, especially in the 

 second emergence. 



(To be continued.) 



AMONG THE BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS OF NORWAY. 



By R. S. Standen, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 196.) 



Shortly before quitting our hospitable friends of Saeterstoen 

 one of our party — I may be allowed to allude to him as the 

 learned and indefatigable Doctor — left us for the far north, for 

 Bosekop in the Alten Fjord, a six days' journey, with I know not 

 what mythological Erebias and Argynnidae at the end of it. We 

 would have given much to be able to follow him ; we knew how 

 we should miss his playful sallies and his erudite conversation ; 

 but weighty considerations intervened, and we decided to leave it 

 for a future expedition. The wisdom of this decision was con- 

 firmed shortly after, when we heard that most of the good 

 things there were in very poor condition, and we concluded that 

 it is futile to attempt to combine both N. and S. Norway in one 

 excursion. 



In the meantime we had still ten days to dispose of before the 

 departure of the inevitable steamer ; so we returned to the 

 capital, and spent a most agreeable evening (with relatives of 

 the writer resident there) at Holmen-Kollen, a favourite resort 

 of the citizens on high ground eight miles out of the city, where 

 suppers are supplied and delightful views obtained over the 

 famous Fjord. In the afternoon, after visiting most of the 

 objects of interest, including the Viking ship and the Antiquity 

 and Natural History Museums, my companion had called on 

 Professor Blyth — an authority on mosses. From the bryologic 

 point of view, he suggested Kongswold in the Dovrefjeld, near 

 Snehsetten ; as this, however, was a three days' journey, we 

 decided to place it in the same category with Bosekop, and 

 eventually hit upon the happy medium of Bolkesjo — a hill 

 resort in Telemarken, about 1700 ft. above sea-level, and some 

 seventy miles W. by S. of Christiania. 



There is a perfectly charming deliberation in all the Nor- 

 wegians do ; they are never in a hurry ; and so the express 

 train to Kongsberg, via Drammen, took 4J hours to accomplish 

 the fifty miles : thence we went by stolkjarre — a terribly rickety 



