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One of the more prominent entomologists of Japan, not given in my list, is 

 Dr. H. Okamoto, who prior to 192 1 was entomologist of the Hokkaido station, 

 and, until 1924, of the Chosen station. Since that time he has been without an 

 official position. His systematic work has been largely upon the Lepidoptera, 

 with biological and control studies on various deciduous fruit insects. 



Aside from the publications of the various experiment stations, entomological 

 papers in Japan appear very largely in the following periodicals : 



In Foreign Languages Only: 



Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tokyo Imperial University, Tokyo. 

 Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, 



Sapporo. 

 Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, Sapporo. 

 Berichte des " Ohara Institute fiir landwirtschaftliche Forsuchungen," 



Kurashiki, Okayama. 



In Japanese Only : 



Konchu Sekai (Insect World), Nawa Entomological Laboratory, Gifu. 

 Dobutsugaku Zasshi (Zoological Magazine), Zoological Society of Japan, 



Tokyo. 

 Byochu-gai Zasshi (Journal of Plant Protection), Plant Protection Society, 



Tokyo. 

 Byokingaichu Iho (Journal of Pathology and Entomology), Department 



of Agriculture and Forestry, Tokyo. 

 Sapporo Norin-gaku Kwaiho (Transactions Sapporo Society of Agriculture 



and Forestry), Sapporo. 

 Dai Nippon N5 Kwaiho (Journal of Agricultural Society, Japan), Tokyo. 

 Several other entomological journals have been published in the past but 

 were eventually discontinued, so that Konchu Sekai is the only one now remain- 

 ing devoted entirely to entomology. 



At the Formosa Experiment Station Mr. R. Takahashi is publishing an exten- 

 sive series of papers in English on the Aphididaes of Formosa. 



This last paragraph quoted from Mr. Clausen reminds me that the 

 Formosa Experiment Station has been doing especially good work 

 for a number of years. Dr. T. Shiraki visited this country in 1909, 

 and, both before his visit and later, published a number of good 

 papers. I especially remember one on insects affecting growing rice, 

 in w'hich the rice stem borer (Chilo simplex) was treated among other 

 forms. An especially interesting report was published from this sta- 

 tion in 1916 on the injurious insects of the mulberry tree in Formosa. 

 The author was M. Maki. The book covered 265 pages, with 24 

 text figures and 14 plates. The number of insects attacking this 

 important tree in Japan appears to be very great, and they appear 



rather large organization, carrying specialists in forest bacteriology, plant 

 pathology, and entomology, with a corps of assistants numbering about 15 in 

 1929. Doctor Harukawa has been connected with the Institute since 1917 and has 

 published many important papers. He is considered by some of the Japanese 

 workers to be practically the foremost economic entomologist in Japan. 



