206 PITHOEA. 



Just as I was about to draw up a de- 

 scription of this Owl, a little Beetle crept 

 out of its plumage. It was evidently a 

 ScarabiEus by its antennae. The whole 

 body was oblong, shaded with blue and 

 black ; the belly white. When touched or 

 alarmed, it lay perfectly still. (Probably 

 Dermestes miirinus.) 



Near the road lay a trap to catch Sal- 

 mon, made of long slender laths, bound 

 together with six flexible twigs of osier into 

 a cylindrical form, open at the base, and 

 furnished with twigs in that part placed 

 like the wires of a mousetrap, but in a 

 double row, that they might be so much 

 the stronger. The open space between 

 them was enough to admit a man's head. 

 On one side further on was a door to take 

 out the fish when caught. 



Oniscus aquaticus was in the water. 



The Dean of Skellefteå told me an anec- 

 dote of a Laplander who, at the last court 

 of justice held there, summoned his neigh- 



