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Coleoptera I captured a number of forms, mostly, however, small 

 and not yet named. Mr. S. W. Kemp has kindly identified for me, 

 Anotnalajunii, \}uhc\\;Telephorus Incolor, F. ; Coccinella lo-piinctata, 

 L. ; Paderus littoralis^ Grav. ; CEdetnera nobilts, Scop. ; Laccoptus 

 obscurus, Panz ; etc. 



From Milan I journeyed to Airolo, where I left the train and 

 walked as far as the south end of the Pass, which was blocked with 

 snow, returning (glissading for a good part of the way) for the night 

 to a little cottage (inhabited by cows and their keepers) about 

 5000 feet up, just over the snow-line. It was very cold here, but in 

 magnificent scenery, and very bracing. During my walk I captured 

 the Coleoptera Lacon murinus, Linn., and Pterostichus inultipimctatiis, 

 Dej ; and an earwig, Forficula, sp. ; and some immature Orthoptera. 

 Rhopalocera were abundant, a non-British Co/ias, and appa- 

 rently Argynnids, etc., as well as at least two non-British Lyc^enids. 

 Starting before six next morning, I walked alone over the Pass, the 

 only tracks throughout a large part of the way being the footmarks 

 of previous travellers ; a most exhilarating tramp ending, via the 

 picturesque villages of Hospitenthal and Andermatt, at Goschenen, 

 where I rejoined the train for Fluelen, thence by boat to Luzern, 

 where I stopped a week. 



I greatly regret the meagre entomological results of my holiday, 

 but the season of year was so unfavourable that I turned my attention 

 almost entirely to other matters ; and, indeed, in a short visit, art 

 in the northern and central parts and physical phenomena in the 

 southern parts of Italy are apt to engross the greater part of one's 

 time. 



