Genus Phyciodes 
top of the pass, and before us in the dim moonlight loomed the 
huge form of Asama-yama, that furious volcano, which more than 
once has laid the land waste for leagues around, and compared 
with which Vesuvius is a pygmy. We slept on Japanese mats, 
and in the morning, the drops glittering on every leaf, we started 
out to walk through the fields to Oiwake, our baggage going for¬ 
ward, we intending to loiter all day amid the charms of nature. 
Seven species of lilies bloomed about us in the hedges and the 
fields; a hundred plants, graceful and beautiful in blossom, 
scented the air with their aroma, and everywhere were butterflies 
and bees. Above us hung in the sky a banner, the great cloud 
which by day and by night issues from the crater of Asama- 
yama. Five species of fritillaries flashed their silvery wings by 
copse and stream; great black papilios soared across the meadows; 
blue lycsenas, bright chrysophani, and a dozen species of wood- 
nymphs gamboled over the low herbage and among the grass. 
Torosan, my chief collector, was in his element. “Dana-san" 
{my lord, or my master), “this kind Yokohama no have got." 
“ Dana-san, this kind me no catchee Tokyo side." And so we 
wandered down the mountain-slope, taking species new alike to 
American and Japanese, until the sun was sinking in the west. 
The cloud-banner had grown crimson and purple in the sunset 
when we wandered into the hospitable doorway of the wayside 
inn at Oiwake. There we made our headquarters for the week, 
and thence we carried away a thousand butterflies and moths 
and two thousand beetles as the guerdon of our chase. 
Genus PHYCIODES, Doubleday 
(The Crescent-spots) 
“ Flusheth the rise with her purple favor, 
Gloweth the cleft with her golden ring. 
Twixt the two brown butterflies waver, 
Lightly settle, and sleepily swing.” 
Jean Ingelow. 
Butterfly. —The butterflies composing this genus are generally 
quite small. Their wings on the upper side are fulvous, or 
brown, with black margins, spots, and lines upon the upper side 
of the wings, and with the under side of the wings reproducing 
