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by any one of the three names of Hondo, Honto, or Honshu. 

 Dai Nihon Teikoku is translated as the Japanese Empire or 

 Great Japanese Empire, in the same way as the British Isles 

 are known as Great Britain. 



Matsumura 8 calls the island on which the capital is situated 

 Honto, and later * he calls it Honshu. For the sake of uniformity, 

 I have adopted the name he uses in his latest work. Yezo he 

 calls Hokkaido, as the name Yezo is but little used by modern 

 Japanese. There will be no confusion with regard to the two 

 large islands of Kyushu and Shikoku which are only known by 

 these names. 



The following are the names, given in their geographical order, 

 of the chain of most important islands under Japanese rule, 

 extending from Saghalien to Formosa. 



Karafu-to (Saghalien), southern portion only Japanese. 



Chishima-to (Kurile Islands). 



Hokkaido (Yezo). 



Hondo, Honto, or Honshu, on which the capital, Tokyo, and the ports of 



Yokohama and Kobe are situated. 

 Shikoku. 



Kyushu (Kiushiu). 

 Tanegashima. 

 Yakushima. 



Shichi-t5 (Linschoten Islands or Cecilia Archipelago). 

 Ryukyu-to (Loochoo Islands), consisting of the Hokubu-t5 (northern group), 



Chubu-to (central group), and Nambu-to (southern group). The two 



latter groups are also known, respectively, as the Sannan and Miyako 



Islands. 

 Ogasawara-jima (Bonin Islands), to the east of Formosa. 

 Taiwan (Formosa). 



The Japanese names of the food plants of larvae described 

 in this series of articles were mostly derived from my Japanese 

 collector, Uehara Magoichi, who is now dead. He collected 

 many of the larvse for me, and although not a trained botanist 

 he had a good working knowledge of Japanese flowering plants 

 acquired during an experience of many years as a collector 

 of Lepidoptera. I referred for the Latin names of these food 

 plants to a book by Matsumura. 5 In cases of doubt, I have 

 occasionally queried the Japanese or Latin name of the food 

 plant. 



8 Catalogus Insectorum Japonicum (sic.) (1905). 



1 Thousand Insects of Japan (Nihon Senchu Dzukai) (1907-1911). 



5 Shokubutsu Mei-i. Enumeration of selected Scientific names of both 

 Native and Foreign Plants with Romanized Japanese names and in many 

 cases Chinese Characters (1906). 



