^Stcjnet/cr — JS^ew J3atrachians (Did MeptUes. 191 



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

 nuflials. 



Ildbitdt. — Islands of Yayeyama yroup, Riu Kiu Archipelago. 



2'ype. — Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 22. 



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



SICRI'HXTICS. 



Calamaria pfefferi new species. 



Diiigiioxix. — Four supralabials, hrst 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: subcauxlals 

 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. 



Scale fonnnhi. — 18 scale rows: l.iS-lOO ventrals: x|-f| subcaudals. 



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



l^ype. — Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 14. 



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

 Museum, Hamburg. 



Disteira orientalis new species. 



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

 contact; 28 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 32f) 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- 

 tinent 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. 



Tirpe. — Science C'ollege Museum, Tokyo. No. 2!). Collected in Okina- 

 wa Shima. 



Rfin((rhx. — 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". 



