. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift. Entomology; Insects. Eristalis tenax in Chinese and Japanese literature. 145 book XIV, p. 15), refutes the assertion of Chinese autliors about the peculiar habit of bees in preparing honey. Kaibara was one of the pioneers of natural history in Japan after the revival of learning. l'he above-quoted work was completed when he was 79 years old. Another Japanese work, by Ryöan Terashinia: „The illustrated Cy- clopedia of Thrce Systems of Japan and China" (Wakan Sansai Dzue), probably the greatest Cyclopedia Japan has ever produced (published 1713 in 1U5
. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift. Entomology; Insects. Eristalis tenax in Chinese and Japanese literature. 145 book XIV, p. 15), refutes the assertion of Chinese autliors about the peculiar habit of bees in preparing honey. Kaibara was one of the pioneers of natural history in Japan after the revival of learning. l'he above-quoted work was completed when he was 79 years old. Another Japanese work, by Ryöan Terashinia: „The illustrated Cy- clopedia of Thrce Systems of Japan and China" (Wakan Sansai Dzue), probably the greatest Cyclopedia Japan has ever produced (published 1713 in 1U5 volumes), contains (Book 53, p, 540 of the new edition 1884) not only a description of Eristalis tenax, but a very distinct description and tigure of its larva (on p. 520). Mr. K. M. renders these two passages as follows: „A kind of fly, shaped like a bee, but bigger, round and fat, coloured yellow and black; the worm, feeding on ordure, after moul- ting, changes into this insect. They are abundant in the season when tnrnips blossem; the nectar of herbaceous flowers they suck; they do no härm either by sting or by bite. They huni with their wings, wliose sound is like saying „ßun Bun" (which is the Japanese nanie of the fly)." „The larva, vulgarly called in Japan Kuzo-Mushi (that is, dung- worm), grows among orduro in summer; at first it resemblos a pupa (of a silkworm?), and is white in colouring; when grown old it is gray and articulated, having a long tail (comp, the tigure); it moves. without regularity; 1) its form resembles the silique of a radish; 1) The Suggestion that „a pupa" means here that of a silkworm, belongs to Mr. K. M. „It moves without regulaiity", according to him, is expressed by a sign which at the same time means foolishly, without apparent aim. The description in which the young larva, in its purity and white- ness, is quaintly compared to the pupa of a silkworm, and contrasted with its dirty condition during its later
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