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coniferana. Amongst the Gnaphalium, Sophronia humerella was scarce 

 and worn. Thalpocliares paula, which readily flies and then settles 

 again on a stem, was abundant. 



I then went up under the tall fir trees in order to seek for the 

 pupae of Geiechia lutatella in the tubularly rolled leaves of Calama- 

 grostis epigejos ; as I however devoted little time to the search, it was 

 unsuccessful. But many of the leaves showed unevenly eaten margins, 

 an indication that they had been visited by the larvae of Pamphila 

 Action. From the fir trees I beat out a bad male of Etlopia fasciaria. 

 On a solitary old stunted bush of Sorbus aucuparia were many leaves 

 spun together in balls which were now empty, but which according tu 

 my previous experience had been tenanted by the larva? of Geiechia 

 leucatella. From the juniper bushes, Cidaria bilineata flew out singly. 

 On a few plants of Agrimonia Eupatoria, I saw on many of the leaves 

 brown swellings ; they were empty, probably they had been the dwell- 

 ings of some beetle-larva. 



I now went to a sandy field by the road-side, which had not been 

 sown for several years, and was well clothed with Astragalus arenarius 

 and Gnaplialium arenarium. Here I hoped to find Geiechia inustella, 

 but the hope proved vain, but from a few isolated small fir trees, which 

 had been left in the middle of the field, I beat out a whole swarm of 

 Geiechia psilella, many worn specimens of G. umbrosella, and a pale 

 variety of G. distinctella. On the dry turfed margin of the road, where 

 the larva? of Simyra nervosa were now past, I found some Lythria 

 purpuraria on the wing, and Grambus alpinellus was very abundant. 



Whilst crossing the peat-meadow, I saw several Ccenonympha 

 Davus and Grambus pascuellus in multitudes. As the force of the wind 

 prevented both collecting and observation, I sought the more sheltered 

 parts of the fir plantation ; but here it was so crowded with Grambus 

 alpinellus that the observation of other species was rendered extremely 

 difficult. Together with several £ of Setina Kulilweinii 1 at last also 

 found a female, but the margins of its wings were so tattered that I 

 left it ; it had probably been blown by the wind against the fir needles. 

 I beat Geiechia dodecella out of the fir bushes. Pterophorus pilosellcs 

 was not scarce, and on the old juniper bushes I took a few Gonchylis 

 rutilana (it occurs in great plenty amongst them). 



"Whilst resting on a dry sheltered slope, I observed on the sand 

 amongst Hieracium pilosella several specimens of a delicate bug with 

 inflated hoods (genus Derephysia) , some of them in copula, and one 

 specimen of the beetle Sarrotrium muticum. Two Butalis siccella hopped 



