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entomological exhibits, which is financed and organised too by the 

 energetic Mr. Nawa and a small ring of enthusiastic followers. 



A painting on wood, some three feet across, of the Gifu Cho''= (/.. 

 japunica), and some beautiful paintings of butterflies and flowers were 

 specially noticeable. These are the work of Miss Nawa, Japan's 

 foremost lady entomologist, whose portrait is reproduced in this 

 number. Miss Nawa's christian name is Taka, i.e., Ladybird, her 

 parents thinking that the daughter of such an enthusiast as Mr. Nawa 

 should have an appropriate name. In England wives and daughters, so 

 at least it is rumoured, look upon insects as undesirable, but not so in 

 Gifu. Here the whole family strive to outdo each other in entomological 

 research. 



In Japan the maxim is, " Treat your guest as you would be 

 treated," so in the evening the Nawa family entertained the writer at 

 an entomological dinner party. Seated on cushions round charcoal 

 braziers in the tea-house of a million pines, and eating with chop- 

 sticks, we did honour to the insect world. Two Geisha gi)is sang of 

 spring, its Howers and its insects, and we drank to the prosperity of 

 Japan, its flora, and its fauna, in Sake. 



Lepidoptera in Haute=Savoie — Annecy, Cliavoire. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



Annecy, in the Haute- Savoie, delightfully situated on the Lac 

 d'Annecy, at an elevation of 1470ft., is apparently, so far as can be 

 judged from a stay of three days, July 29th-81st, not a good centre 

 for lepidoptera, although, on the other hand, it would appear to be a 

 perfect paradise for the odonatist. The district is exceedingly fertile 

 and highly cultivated, factors that are against success in the pursuit of 

 Rhopalocera. Few examples, even of the common I'ieris rapac, are to 

 be seen about the cultivated grounds near the town, and it is not until 

 one has passed round the northern side of the lake and reached the 

 lucerne patches leading up to the rough lower and bushy slopes of the 

 Montague de Veyrier, that one really finds any lepidoptera. True, one 

 sees an occasional Kpineplu'lt' ianira, Cnnioni/iiijiha pcDiipJdluH, Poli/uiii- 

 matus icarns, and the reed patches one passes hide swarms of Hi/clro- 

 ccuiipa ntcKjncdis and some H. lu/mpJiaeata that come out at the least 

 disturbance, although the former species appears to be still more 

 abundant in the nettle-beds by the side of the road, which they choose 

 for a hiding-place, but the Wicken-like ground near the lake seems to 

 produce no Rhopalocera of importance. On the east side of the lake, 

 however, I'aiiilio pmlaliriits soon becomes a roadside insect, as also do 

 PoUiiiunia c-albniii, Pyfaiiwis atulanta, J^piiirp/ich' iani)a, and Poli/oiii- 

 viatiiH icanis, whilst between Chavoire and Veyrier the flower-heads by 

 the wayside abound with Anthnnria cat niolica, A. tranmlpina and A. 

 Jilipaidulac, and t>esia fitdlatanun flies at the flowers or buzzes up and 

 down the white dazzling walls, resting occasionally under the topmost 

 ledges for a moment before flying off again. A single badly-worn 

 Phiienitis ccnniUa was also observed, whilst a large brightly-coloured 

 form of Paninie iiiacra was in equally unsatisfactory condition. Taking 

 a few steps from the road upon the lucerne banks that edge the clover 

 fields, to the left as one approaches Chavoire, in order to reach the 

 rougher ground at the back, one imuiediately discovers a variety of 



