LIST OF LOCALITIES IN JAPAN PROPER, RIU KIU ARCHIPELAGO, AND 

 FORMOSA, MENTIONED IN THIS WORK, WITH THEIR PRINCIPAL 

 SYNONYMS. 



The spelling of many localities is often so different in the various 

 zoological and geograpliical writings quoted in this work that it seems 

 important to give a list of the various names and their different syn- 

 onyms, the more so since there is as yet no generally adopted standard 

 spelling, Tokyo and Tokio, Kjusiu and Kyushu, etc., occurring indis- 

 criminately often in the same publication. For this reason no attempt 

 has been made at uniformity in the text of this work. 



Agincourt; small island of the northern extremity of Formosa. 



Aizu; district in the province of Iwashiro, around the town of Wakamatsu. 



Aki; province, near western extremity of Hondo, facing the Inland Sea; capital 

 Hiroshima. 



Amakarima, Amakerrima, or Amakirima Island; same as Keramashima. 



Amami-o-shima ; large northern island of the middle group of the Riu Kiu Archipelago, 

 also known as Oshima (Satsuma); Oho-shima; Oushima, etc. 



Amami-o-shima; subgroup of the Riu Kiu Archipelago consists of the large Amami- 

 o-shima, from which Kakeroma shima is separated by a narrow strait, Tokuno 

 shima, Okinoerabu shima, Yoron shima, and a few smaller islets. 



AoMORi; town at the head of Aomori Bay, near Tsugaru Strait, the terminus of the 

 Northern Railway. 



Asahigawa; river in the San-yodo. 



Awa; there are two provinces of this name, one, also called Boshii, on Hondo, 

 occupying the end of the peninsula east of the Bay of Tokyo, the other on the east 

 side of Shikoku. 



AwAJi; province embracing the large island at the eastern entrance to the Inland Sea, 

 between Shikoku and Hondo. 



AwoMORi; same as Aomori. 



Bangkimtsing; locality in southern Formosa. 



Bingo; province near the western end of Hondo, facing the Inland Sea. 



BiTCHu; province near the western end of Hondo, east of Bingo, facing the Inland Sea. 



BiWA, liAKE; in the province of Omi, Hondo, not far from Kyoto. It is 36 mil(>s long 

 by 12 miles wide. The altitude above the sea is 328 feet. 



Bizen; province near the western end of Hondo, facing the Inland Sea, east of Bitchu. 



BoNiN Islands; Japanese Ogasawara shima, a small archipelago of volcanic origin, 

 situated on the 142d meridian east of Greenwich and between 20° 30' and 27° 45'' 

 north lat. It consists of three groups, Mukoshima, Chichi shima, and Haha shima. 



Borodino Islands; small group in the Northern Pacific, southeast of the Okinawa 

 group, Riu Kiu. 



BosHiJ; alternate name for Awa, Hondo. 



BoTEL TOBAGO ; high island situated due east from the south(>rn end of Formosa. 

 Type-locality of Japalura viilsukurii Stejneger. 



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