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Of crickets (Jap. koriji) there were big fat fellows in scores under any heap of weeds 

 or rubbish ; and cockroaches (Jap. ahura-mushi) scuttled about the houses, which are 

 sometimes much infested by them. 



Dertnaptera. — In Canada this order is represented only by the small and very rare 

 Labia minuta, which is probably known only to entomologists. In Japan, however, ear- 

 wigs were very numerous and swarmed among dead leaves, etc., and especially along the 

 beaches among the windrows of cast-up sea-weeds. Some resemble greatly in appearance 

 our own rare little species and probably belong to the same genus. 



IIemipte7-a. — The Japanese name for bugs appears to be the same as that applied to 

 insects in general, viz., Mushi. The hvg par excelle7ice, that species which, in not very 

 remote regions of this country, makes the wooing of sweet sleep often moi^e of a necessity 

 than a luxury, is said to be unknown in Japan, and I certainly did not meet with it in 

 any of my travels either on land or water. 



The ponds and ditches contained water-bugs very closely resembling our species, 

 including a Belostoma like the big water-bug which is seen so frequently upon our side- 

 walks since the introduction of the electric lights. Of terrestrial Hemiptera there were 

 numerous species of Reduviina, Capsina. Lygseidit', Alydina, Pentatomina, Scutellerida3, 

 etc., some of the phytophagous species of which were so abundant that they must have 

 done serious injury. 



The members of the sub order Homoptera were, however, much more noticeable 

 because the large species of the Cicadid?e made such an outcry during the hot weather 

 that the most indifferent person (unless afflicted with deafness) could not help being aware 

 of them. The most vociferous species was a large smoky -winged Platypleura that was 

 very abundant in Yokohama, and sent forth his loud, shrill me-me-me from every lawn 

 and grove. There were also three or four clear-winged species of Cicada, with lusty 

 voices which joined in the concerts, and added noise if not melody. The children caught 

 numbers of these l)ig bugs by means of slender bamboos with a little rice glue on the tip, 

 and were very expert at getting them from their resting places in the trees. They also 

 caught in the same way dragon -flies, for what purpose I know not, and an apparatus of 

 this kind might often be of use to an entomologist for bringing down insects from other- 

 wise inaccessible situations. The Japanese name for the Cicada is Serni, probably in 

 allusion to its shrill notes. 



Several species of small Fulgoridae were taken, but I did not see any of the large 

 Lantern-flies such as occur in China. A bright green species about two-thirds of an inch 

 long was common, both young and full-grown, on lawn shrubbery. There were also 

 various tree-hoppers and frog-spittle insects, of which some were very prettily marked and 

 coloured. These were closely allied to Canadian forms, but there, occurred also abundantly 

 a handsome little insect belonging to the sub-family Ricaniida, which is unrepresented in 

 North America. This pretty insect looks more like a little butterfly than a bug, as the 

 wing-cases are expanded and held horizontally. They are of a brown color, with two 

 transparent bars, and when the insect is alive they are covered with a rich irridescent 

 bloom, and have each a sort of eyespot near the margin. Unfortunately the fine powdery 

 coating rubs oflT very easily, so that my specimens have lost the greater part of their 

 beauty, and do not so much resemble lepidoptera. A beautiful green bug, looking like 

 a small moth with drooped wings, occurred in great numbers, at times forming a regular 

 fringe on the stems of plants. When disturbed they slipped very cunningly around to 

 the opposite side of the twig. This species belongs to the genus Ormenis. 



Coleoptera. — Beetles are well represented in Japan, some of the species being 

 exceedingly, and destructively, abundant. Many of the species are very large and hand- 

 some in comparison with those of the more boreal fauna of Canada, which is especially 

 noticeable in such families as the Scarabaiida3 and Lucanidie. 



Of tiger-beetles there was a very brilliant species, which was abundant near Yokokawa 

 (about one hundred miles inland from Yokohama), and also at Chofu, near the Western 

 entrance to the Inland Sea. It was of a rich green and blue colour with bands of ruddy gold 

 or bronze across the thorax and elytra. Upon the upper slopes of Fuji (at perhaps 8,000 



