titty negtr New Batrachiam and JlrjttiJcx. 191 



tween heel and base of third and fourth toes; normally three pairs of 

 nuchals. 



Habitat. Islands of Yayeyama group, Riu Kiu Archipelago. 



Type. Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 22. 



Named for Dr. K. Kishinouye, Imperial Fisheries Bureau, Tokyo. 



SKIM'KXTES. 



Calamaria pfefferi new species. 



Dutynoxix. Four supralabials, first slightly shorter than second; first 

 pair of infralabials forming a suture behind mental; no azygos shield 

 between anterior chin-shields; frontal longer than broad, about four 

 times as broad as supraocular; one preocular; tail pointed; subcaudals 

 15-26 pairs; no light or dark colored collar; no spot on upper side of tail; 

 ventral surface light-colored with two irregular rows of very distinct 

 dark brown spots: tail underneath with a median brown longitudinal 

 band. 



Hi'tih'ftirmulu. 13 scale rows; 158-160 yentrals; Jihl!! subcaudals. 



Habitat. Miyako Shima, Yayeyama group, Riu Kiu Archipelago. 



Ttn>f. Science College Museum. Tokyo, No. 14. 



Named in honor of Dr. G. Pfeffer, curator in the Natural History 

 Museum, Hamburg. 



Disteira orientalis new species. 



Diagnosis. Maxillary teeth all grooved; two pairs of chin-shields in 

 contact; 23 to 25 scales round the neck, 32 to 35 round the body: frontal 

 shield more than twice as long as broad, longer .than its distance from 

 rostral and equalling the parietals; a single anterior temporal; rostral 

 slightly broader than deep; ventrals 326 to 341; one or two postoculars; 

 scales stronglv keeled: ventrals, except the most anterior ones, bituber- 

 culate. Yellow with black rings wider on the back and belly, and con 

 fluent on the anterior third of the latter into a black ventral band; head 

 black with irregular yellow marks on anterior half and behind eyes. 



Habitat. Riu Kiu Seas. 



Tfipc. Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 29. Collected in Okina 

 wa Shima. 



7tV ///////*. I have examined two additional specimens in the Hamburg 

 Museum (Nos. 2574, a-b) collected by Mr. Lenz on Iriomote Shima, Ya 

 yeyama group, on March 13, 1897. Also a specimen in the Leyden Mu 

 seum (No. 1483) collected by von Siebold in "Japan". 



