848 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES FROM JAPAN. [NoV. 15, 



the beaten tract , and thus I caught only those that crossed my 

 path ; besides, there were such couutless myriads of female blood- 

 sucking Diptera (including two species of Chrysops, three of 

 Tabanus, one seemingly T. lineola, and one of Simulium) that I could 

 do little else than defend my person. 



" From Tomakomai to Shimamatou, a distance of thirty miles, 

 Lyccena hellotia had collected in patches of hundreds, drawing in 

 the moisture from the road. They looked like fleets of miniature 

 yachts. By one sweep of my net, I secured a hundred and six. 



" I saw in Hokkaido and iu Rikuoku, in the north of the main 

 island, Euripus japonica : it is much smaller than those taken further 

 south, measuring only 2" /'"." 



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" Mr. Pryer has kindly allowed me to put my insects with some 

 things that he is sending home by the English mail of the 12th inst. 

 Among his bottles of preserved animals will be found one containing 

 a small snake (No. 1) that had taken up its quarters in an old bam- 

 boo in my garden in Tokio, another (No. 2) in the road near 

 Junsainuma near Hakodate, a red tick (No. 3) found all over 

 Hokkaido : I sometimes had as many as twenty on my legs ; they 

 are rather indifferent feeders, attacking horses, deer, and even the 

 Ainos." 



Enclosed is a list of " Butterflies seen in Hokkaido in July and 

 August, over a distance of 345 miles between the parallels 41° 25' 

 and 43° 4' N." 



Mr. Fenton's list is arranged according to the now almost obsolete 

 classification of Doubleday and Hewitsou ; and therefore I have 

 thought it better for convenience of reference to remodel it, at 

 the same time filling in such specific names as were left blank. 



NyMPHALIDjE. 



Satyrin^. 



1. Satyrus bipunctatus, Motsch. 



2. sclirenliii, Brcm. 



3. Neope gaschkevitschii, Men. 



4. callipteris, Bail. 



6. feutoni, Butl. 



6. Pararge achinoides, Butl. 



7. Lethe diaua, Butl. 



8. sicelis, Hewits. 



9. Erebia scoparia, Butl. 

 10. Ypthima argus, Butl. 



Nymphalin^. 



11. Apafiira substituta, Butl. 



12. Hestina japonica, i^cZc?. 



13. Liinenitis sibilla, Ochs. 



14. Neptis excellens, Butl. 

 ludmilla, H.-Sch. 

 intermedia, Pryer. 



15. 

 16. 

 17. 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 

 21. 

 22. 

 23. 



Arascliiiia fallax, Jans. 



obscura, Fenton. 



Pyrameis cardui, Linn. 



• indica, Herbst. 



Vanessa angelica, Cram. 



luuigera, Butl. 



v-album, Denis. 



24. Vanessa xanthomelas, Denis. 



25. eonnexa, Butler. 



26. io, Linn. 



27. antiopa, Linn. 



28. glauconia, Motsch. 



29. Argynnis sagana, Doubl. 

 ■ paphioides, Butl. 



- Ijsippe, Jans. 



- japonica, Men. 



- rabdia, Btitl. 



- locuples, Butl. 



- fortuna, Ja7is. 



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