Japan 1892
Alfred Parsons, Notes in Japan, Harper and Brothers, New York, Chapter: Early Summer in Japan.
As the summer came on and the weather got hotter the insects became more and more numerous; there were splendid butterflies and dragon-flies in the daytime, swarms of fire-flies over the rice-fields at night, and unfortunately many others which bit at all hours, flying things, and things which mosquito-curtains could not keep out.
