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reniform almost to the base of the nervures; the orbicular is 
somewhat smaller than usual, and entirely surrounded by the 
black. In these specimens the claviform is also unusually well 
developed, but curiously formed ; it consists of a pale spot, of 
the same size and shape as the orbicular, encircled with black, 
and with a black wedge-shaped dash from its outer edge. It 
would be very interesting to hear that a form similar to the 
above was known to occur in Britain. Noctua descripta, Bremer, 
which occurs in the Amur and Japan, is not unlike some 
varieties of N. festa, but the submarginal band is differently 
formed. Prof. Smith’s description of Noctua hospitalis, Grote,* 
seems to agree with some British forms of N. festiva. 
LEPIDOPTERA IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ROLDAL, 
NORWAY. 
By tue Rev. F. A. Watxer, D.D., F.E.S. 
BreironD Hoven is most charmingly situate on a steep grassy 
slope overlooking the centre of the lake and valley of Roldal, with 
craggy heights and rugged scaurs in the immediate background. 
On the opposite shore of the lake other hills, of similar aspect 
and elevation, are not wanting. These are still more abundantly 
clothed with pine-wood and copses of birch, and are reproduced, 
along with their snow-streaked summits, in the glassy waters of 
the lake, as in a mirror, to the delight of the beholder, as he 
gazes towards one end of the lake where, nearly three miles off, 
the church, hotel and hamlet of Roldal may be seen; or else 
directs his eyes four miles in the other direction, where the lake 
terminates on that side also, and the upward ascent is commenced 
in quest of the picturesque surroundings of Naes, along the road 
which up to that point has skirted the water-side. To the rear 
of Roldal village rises the mighty Sceter, over 4000 ft. in height, 
with its deep snow drifts, mountain tarns, lengthy Alpine pass, 
innumerable patches of snow, and, in some spots, even plateaux 
of the same, waterfalls, and torrents. As some misconception 
has prevailed respecting the nomenclature of this district, it may 
tend to make matters clear if 1 observe that Breifond is the name 
of the hotel; also of the glacier on the other side of the lake, 
nearly opposite but six miles away among the hills, and only to 
be reached after a steep climb. Haarre (or Horre), the title given 
to the new chaplaincy to which 1 am the first appointed, is the 
designation of the steep mountain slopes that stretch upward to 
the rear ot the Breifond Hotel. NRoldal is the most comprehensive 
term, and includes the whole of the valley and lake. 
* ‘Revision of the Species of the Genus Agrotis,’ Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus, 
No. 38, 
