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walked along: viz. Zettienia albonotaria, Z. rufescentaria , Motsch., 
and Hygrochroa subspersata, Feld., these three all among Crypto- 
merias; Epione advenaria, Hiibn., which I have never seen alive 
in England; Epirrhoe supergressa , Butl., which is very like onr 
Melanippe unangulata, Haw.; a very worn Scotosia sp.; the 
Argent-and-Sable, Melanippe hecate , Bntl.; Phibalapteryx tersata, 
Schiff., which I have also taken in my garden at Mortehoe ; Abraxas 
miranda, and Microstega ( Botys ) pandalis, Hiibn., another British 
species; on the other hand, Anagoga indictinaria came to light. 
Another familiar Palaearctic species, Ectropis ( Tephrosia ) consonaria , 
Hiibn., was taken at rest on a beech-trunk at Chuzengi, above Mkko. 
At that altitude, 4370 ft., the trees were leafless, and in some parts 
the woods suggested England in March-—but this was only on one 
side, on the other the prevalent underwood consisted of Azalea , now 
in full bloom, white, orange-red, purple-crimson, and salmon-pink. 
A hill on the way up, perhaps 300 to 400 ft. high, was a glowing 
mass of red. 
Hikko looked like a good place for Neuroptera, but I had not time 
to pay attention to the group. A solitary Dragon-fly, Gomphidia sp., 
is represented in the British Museum by unnamed Japanese speci¬ 
mens. I brought home also two Caddis-flies, Stenopsyche grisei- 
pennis, which came to light, and Sciops (?) octomaculata, McLachl. 
Yokohama. 
May 19th, 1904. 
About the racecourse several insects now reckoned as old friends 
were met with, such were Papilio maehaon, of which a tattered speci¬ 
men was taken; Colias poliographus , a male ; and Zizera maha , var. 
diluta. The wet-season form of Yphthima zodia was abundant, but 
of the black Skipper Ealpe varia I took but a single specimen. The 
only moth was a small Pyrale, Pyrausta varialis, Brem. The last 
butterfly that I saw in Japan was the same species as the first, 
Blanaida goschkevitschii ; this was in abundance; late in the afternoon 
it was constantly seen to settle on the sunny side of pine trunks, 
when it would list to port or starboard indifferently, often as much 
as 40°. While watching these butterflies a Dragon-fly, almost 
certainly Orlhetrum japonicum , Uhler, of which there were plenty 
hawking about, was seen to carry off one of these big Satyrs high 
into the air; they both went far out of reach, but as far as I could 
see the butterfly showed no signs of struggling. 
