1 OS PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL UVSEUM. vol.38. 



Family AMBLYCEPHALIDiE. 



(Ilerpet. Japan, 1907, p. 255.) 



Genus AMBLYCEPHALUS Boie. 



1822. Amplycephalus Kuhl, [sis, L822, p. 474 (nomin inn/nun. 



L827. Amblycephalus Boie, Tsis, 1827, p. 519 (type, A. hvvis). 



L830. Pareas Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amph., p. 181 (type, Dipsas carinatus). 



AMBLYCEPHALUS FORMOSENSIS Denburgh. 



1909. Amblycephalus formosensis Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci. (4), vol. 

 3, Dec. 20, 1909, p. 55 (type-locality, Kanshirei, Formosa; type, Cal. 

 Acad. Sci. No. 18006). 



This interesting novelty seems to hold a somewhat intermediate 

 position between A. monticola, which occurs in the Eastern Hima- 

 layas, the Khasi hills and the Assam hills in Assam, and A. 

 moellendorfii from southeastern China and Indo-China. With the 

 former it shares scale-formula and enlarged median dorsals, with 

 the hitter the exclusion of the supralabials from the eye. 



Family ELAPIDiE. 



CALLIOPHIS MACCLELLANDII (Reinhardt). 



I Herpet. Japan, 1907, p. 391.) 



is 1 1. Elaps macclellandii Reinhardt, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 532. — ■ 

 Callophis march //rmc?u Demu k<;h, Proc. California Acad. Sci. (4), vol. 

 3, Dec. 20, 1909, p. 54 ( Kosempo and Suishako, Fonnosa). 



Van Denburgh simply remarks that specimens of this species have 

 been received from the localities quoted above, but he does not give 

 an\ scale formulas which would throw light on the question raised 

 in the ETerpetology <Xf Japan, whether a high number of ventrals may 



not characterize a separate Formosan form. 



CALLIOPHIS, species. 



Callophis Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci. (4), vol. 3, Dec. 20, L909, p. 54 

 1 . wan, Formosa I. 



\ specimen preserved in the Taiwan library is doubtfully referred 

 to by Van I >enburgh as possibly " an undescribed species." From I he 

 description furnished by his correspondent it appears that the scale 

 formula and oi her external structural characters are essentially as in 

 the specimen of 0. macclellandii from Formosa described by me in the 



1 [erpetology of Japan. Among other characteristics it t bus possesses 



2 I'! veut rals. The colorat ion, how e\ er. is very different . being longi- 

 tudinally striped instead of transversely barred, and by the additional 

 lateral white spots reminds one of the pattern of Hemibungarus 

 boettgeri. This similarity might tempt one to suggest thai the Giran 

 specimen maj belong to the latter genus rather than to Cattiopkis, 



