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Show 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 countless myriads of female bloodsucking 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 m y person. " From Tomakomai to Shimamatou, a distance of thirty miles, Lycosna 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 m y net, I secured a hundred and six. " I saw in Hokkaido and in Rikuoku, in the north of the main island, Euripus japonica: it is much smaller than those taken further south, measuring only 2" 7'"." * * * " Mr. Pryer has kindly allowed me to put m y insects with some things that he is sending home by the English mail of the 12th hist. 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 bamboo 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 m y 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 Hewitson; 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. NYMPHALIDA 1. Satyrus bipunctatus, Motsch. 2. schrenkii, Brem. 3. Neope gaschkevitschii, Men, 4. callipteris, Butl. 5. fentoni, Butl, NYM 11. Apatura substituta, Butl. 12. Hestina japonica, Feld. 13. Liuienitis sibilla, Ochs. 14. Neptis excellens, Butl. 15. ludmilla, H.-Sch. 16. intermedia, Pryer. 17. Araschnia fallax, Jans. 18. obscura, Fenton. 19. Pyrameis cardui, Linn. 20. - - indica, Herbst. 21. Vanessa angelica, Cram. 22. lunigera, Butl. 23. v-album, Denis. N2E. 6. Pararge achinoides, Butl. 7. Lethe diana, Butl. 8. eicelis, Hewits. 9. Erebia scoparia, Butl. 10. Ypthima argus, Butl. LIN.E. 24. Vanessa xanthomelas, Denis. 25. connexa, Butler. 26. io, Linn. 27. antiopa, Linn. 28. glauconia, Motsch. 29. Argynnis sagana, Doubl. 30. paphioides, Butl. 31. lysippe, Jans. 32. japonica, Men. 33. rabdia, Butl. 34. locuples, Butl. 35. fortuna, Jans. |