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and Khabarovka, it has been collected by Maximo witch in 1864 at the 

 rivers Olakha (Ussuri) and Dadsoshu, and by Pleske at Vladivostok 

 in 1883. 



Its occurrence in Korea is mentioned here for tli* first time. 



List of specimens of Takydromus amurensis, 



a Figs. 213-21C. 



TAKYDROMUS WOLTERI " Fischer. 



1885. Tachydromns luolteri Fischer, Jahrb. Wiss. Anst. Hamburg., II, p. 82 (type- 

 . locality, Chemulpo, Korea; type in Brit. Mus.). — Mueller, Verli. 

 Naturf. Ges. Basel, VIII, Pt. 2, 1887, p. 285 (Seoul, Korea).— Guenther, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), I, March 1888, pp. 168, 169 (Kiukiang, China). 



For the status of this species see the remarks under T. amurensis, 

 from which it is said to difl^er by having only one inguinal pore on 

 each side and a very distinct white lateral band from eye backward. 



T. wolteri was reduced by Boulenger to a synonym of T. tacJiydro- 

 moides at a time when in the latter he also included T. septentrionalis. 

 He has since admitted the distinctness of T. septentrionalis, but there 

 is apparently no record of where he would place T. wolteri. It can 

 not well go with T. septentrionalis because of its four pairs of chin- 

 shields. On the other hand, it seems impossible to join it to T. 

 tachydromoides, as it has eight subequal dorsal rows. This latter 

 character links it distinctly with T. amurensis. One of the characters 

 by which the original describer, Doctor Fischer, attempted to separate 

 it from the latter, viz, the comparatively large size of the median 

 dorsal series, is not a valid character, as our Korean specimen of T. 

 amurensis has all the dorsal rows subequal concomitant with three 

 inguinal pores. 



Habitat. — T. wolteri was originally described frcm a specimen col- 

 lected at Chemulpo, Korea, and Mueller states that one specimen from 

 Seoul is in the Basel Museum. Doctor Guenther has since recorded 

 another from Kiukiang, east central China, but it is probably per- 

 missible to suggest that the latter may be a T. septentrionalis with an 

 abnormal number of chin-shields. 



Genus EREMI-AS& Wiegmann. 



1834. Eremias Wiegmann, Herpet. Mex., p. 9 (type, Lacerta velox). 

 1841. Aspidorhinus Eichwald, Fauna Casp.-Cauc. (p. 74) (same type). 



« For Mr. C. Wolter, who collected at Chemulpo. 6 From eprmidi, alone, lonely. 



