68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, '03 



During the few days spent in Gifu the writer was the recip- 

 ient of distinguished social attentions. Mr. Nawa gave a very 

 charming Japanese dinner in one of the notable restaurants 

 of the city and the following day the governor of the province 

 gave a very elaborate dinner in a beautiful park. The writer 

 also was given a most artistic porcelain model of the local 

 butterfly of Gifu, the "Gifu cho" {Leuhdorjia japonica), 

 which had been specially made for distribution to distinguished 

 visitors to the entomological exposition. This butterfly is the 

 species which adorns the title page of each number of "The 

 Insect World." 



Miss Nawa, an only child, is a very demure and modest 

 Japanese girl who has evidently inherited her father's love for 

 the study of insects, a thing not surprising when one sees the 

 enthusiasm which pervades the whole family, and includes the 

 mother and relatives. Japanese names as a rule mean some- 

 thing, and Miss Nawa's given name, Taka, is Japanese for 

 ladybird, an appropriate name for the daughter of so enthusi- 

 astic an entomologist as is Mr. Nawa. The only present 

 which I could persuade Miss Nawa to take in return for the 

 many colored drawings which she had given me was a promise 

 of a complete set of the best Windsor- Newton colors, and 

 these I was able to make up partly at Yokohama, and the 

 balance I sent to her after my return to America. At a later 

 visit to Gifu for two days only and more especially for explor- 

 ations in an adjacent orchard district, the writer w^as taken 

 out on the river which runs through the town and given an 

 exhibition of the method of fishing with cormorants at night 

 with great flaming iron baskets of wood as lanterns, one of 

 the most weird and attractive incidents of his Japanese trip. 

 The hospitality of the Nawas is only exceeded by their enthu- 

 siasm in the study of entomology, and any entomologist visit- 

 ing Japan will feel well rewarded by going to Gifu. 



ERRATUM. 

 On the 8th line from the bottom of page 55 (Feb. News) our printer 

 has coined a new specific name. It is not half bad and is Latin sounding, 

 and we recommend it to someone in need of a name for a new species. 

 The name the writer hoped to see in print was Jucunda. 



