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perfect abandonment ; for there seemed something 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 Bucklee, Emsworth : May 5th, 1880. 
Insects 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 Panayo’.us ruhripes and Leistus laticollis , which were wanting to my cabinet 
before, and I have about 7 new Geodephaga, all obscure species. From Hakodate, I 
have 4 or 5 others, and Cychrus 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 insnlicola 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 nmst 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 next month, 
for some early spring things and then again in June. 
ISIkko is the great place every one says 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 the first 
burst of spring. 
There are numbers (in species) of Trichoptera about, but they require too 
delicate handling to admit of preservation. 
About 10 days ago 1 got some nice things at M:onoshta, a place in the hills 30 
