20 ' June, 



perfect abaudonment ; for there seemed sometliing very human in the expressively 

 weary attitudes assumed while it again stretched itself with a slight change of 

 position and slept for four minutes more ; it then awoke and shook the tail 

 segments which yet remained comparatively narrow, when suddenly the exuviae fell 

 away disclosing the two perfect filaments ; thus at 12.50 a.m. was this moult com- 

 pleted, having from the rupture of the skin to this final riddance occupied one hour 

 and a quarter. — William Buckler, Emsworth : May 5fh, 1880. 



Insec-ts in Japan. — It is very evident I shall have little time for correspondence 

 as spring comes on, and summer follows, as I have been almost entirely engaged in 

 collecting and setting this month, although the greater part of it has been a series of 

 storms of rain or snow. I have already got much material, but nothing grand yet. 



1 found Fanagce.us rubripes and Leistus laticolHs, which were wanting to my cabinet 

 before, and I have about 7 new OeodepJiaga, all obscure species. From Hakodate, I 

 have 4 or 5 others, and Ci/chrus convexus, given to me by a Japanese, so I have no 

 doubt the Cychrus is common up there. I have made arrangements to be taken in at 

 Hakodate on the 1st July, for 2 months. Sympiezocera is out here now and feeds 

 in rotten Cryptomeria japonica. The Hemiptera are evidently abundant, as I have 

 carded about 60 species and seen others. Carahi are not out yet ; I have only seen 



2 specimens — 1 insulicola and the common species. Damaster should be about now, 

 I hear, but it requires search at night and is troublesome to get. 



Japan is disappointing in many ways, one cannot eat the food of the natives 

 and this involves taking " chow-chow " with you everywhere, a great impediment and 

 expense for porterage. I have a passport for the 13 adjacent provinces and can go 

 anywhere I like, but the idea of exhausting the Nipon-fauna must be abandoned 

 — the country teems with species in every quarter — and it is too much for one 

 person. 



About 13 species of hybernated butterflies are seen in the warm parts of sunny 

 valleys, and I shall get a few later. 



Fusiyama must be seen to be appreciated ; no wonder the Japanese pray to it. 

 I am going up on to the plains on which its base rests, about the 15th of nest month, 

 for some early spring things and then again in June. 



Nikko is the great place every one s:»ys for beauty, insects and primeval forests, 

 it is 90 miles north of Tokio (no one speaks of Yedo now): we go to Nikko in June 

 for 2 weeks before going to Yezo. 



Rosalia Batesi, Har., is common here, in Yezo and Sikoke, and so is distributed 

 evidently. Yokohama is the worst place in Japan for an Entomologist, you cannot 

 get away from it under 4 or 5 miles, and then you find yourself close to some beach 

 or other, no road takes you comfortably inland amongst moist woods and vegetation. 



I was working at old pine " stools," as Turner called them, all yesterday with a 

 heavy hatchet. 



The Elaters are already just under the bark and will come out with tlie first 

 burst of spring. 



There are numbers (in species) of Trichoptera about, but they require too 

 delicate handling to admit of preservation. 



About 10 daj-s ago I got some nice things at Slionoshta, a place in the hills 30 



