108 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



journeys to Windermere, prospecting new places. The balsam 

 {Imjjatiens noli-me-tangere) seemed all dead with heat, but after 

 the heavy rains it sprang up again, and started with new life, 

 attaining a height of two feet blooming and seeding ; but not 

 a trace of Cidaria reticulata larvae until the 30th, when I found 

 three on some plants at a little distance. 



Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, November 26, 1887. 



ON THE CAPTURE OF A NEW SPECIES OF PYTHO IN 



JAPAN. 

 By George Lewis, F.L.S. 



On the 14th June, 1880, I left Nikko at day-break, and after 

 walking about four hours I reached the higher region of Niohozan 

 in good time for some hours' work in the forests growing at an 

 elevation of about 7000 feet. On going up the mountain, after 

 passing the valley vegetation, there was a large area of long grass, 

 mixed with Lespedeza, and here and there oaks of a stunted 

 growth, and beyond this I found the mountain covered with a 

 belt of larch and birch for about a mile, and then I came sud- 

 denly into a dense forest of pines {Abies), where snow remained 

 at intervals under the trees and in the crevices of the rocks 

 where the sun rays could not directly enter. Here spring was 

 just commencing, and insects were lying under bark and stones 

 (which were still covered with hoar-frost) awaiting the warmth 

 which a few days would bring to them. For the first time I now 

 saw Rhagium, Thanasimus, and a Coccinella, allied to the Euro- 

 pean ocellata, and obtained Pterostichus macrogenys, Bates, and 

 some curious B7'achylytra, which. Dr. Sharp has recently described, 

 but insects generally, although of a distinctly boreal character, 

 were far from numerous. 



The place was above the locality of Broscosoina and other 

 mountain species, but one or two species of Leistus and Nehria 

 were found, and the blue Damaster. Here und§r the pine bark 

 still glistening in the rime of winter was the habitat of Pytho. 



The species is the largest at present known, and the thorax 

 is anteriorly rounded off at the sides and constricted behind, like 

 Pytho deplanatus, and not transverse like that of niger, Kirby, or 

 depressus, Linn. 



