266 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
flopping about, carried along by the strong wind, and Chrysophanus 
var. hypophleas also turned up here, but more ruddy than those 
taken at Hammerfest the year before. I also got some Brenthis 
pales var. isis. 
During the few days I remained at Sletten, which was the 
name of the farm, my attention was centred on the moors 
intervening between the road and the Skadavaara, but the skies 
were often overcast during the principal part of the day, and the 
result of these incursions was anything but encouraging. The 
eround was very difficult to traverse; wide detours had often to 
be made to avoid the deeper swamps; the mosquitoes were 
terrific in their onslaughts. Occasionally a Brenthis would 
appear and disappear, without giving an opportunity to approach, 
and more rarely an Hrebia would lure one into the deeper water, 
without so much as a chance of a sweep of the net. 
For certain entomological reasons I wanted to be back at 
Abisko again as early as possible, so planned to leave Sletten on 
the Sunday, when ‘‘ mine host” had agreed to drive me down to 
Bossekop. 
On my last day, which commenced very dull during the fore- 
noon, J made a last search in quest of EH. disa, and at a point 
where the marsh crosses the main road I got Brenthis var. fingal, 
B. var. ossianus and B. freija commonly, and added B. frigga to 
my list, several of which were taken during the glimmers of 
sunshine. As the day brightened I made a detour to the left, 
and found H. disa sparingly (7 in all) but not in good condition 
in some of the swamps, which with little exaggeration might be 
termed lakes, dotted with tussocks of grass, springing from 
somewhere below, which give little or no support, and as the 
insect flies over the surface, one has just to go in up to the 
knees to get within reach. 
As arranged, I was driven down to Bossekop on Sunday 
morning (27th), and during the forenoon wandered back to the 
farm down by the river. C. hecla was common in the meadows, 
still quite perfect here, and H. polaris by the side of the river. 
There are two rather curious forms of this, one which has a 
somewhat lighter ground-colour, greenish brown with dark dots 
scattered rather regularly over the surface, which gives them a 
peculiar granular appearance. The other form has symmetrical, 
pale, more or less wedge-shaped blotches on all the wings 
towards the medio-basal area. It is astonishing how frequently 
these two forms occur: one might almost say it is difficult to 
obtain specimens that are what one might consider normally 
unicolorous. All look very black when on the wing. 
(H. norna was frequently seen and taken, especially on the 
moors between the Alten elv and Bossekop village, and at the ford 
referred to in my former paper | saw my first Scandinavian Melitea, 
which was quickly secured and proved to be a male of MM. iduna, 
