200 BUT.LETTN W, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



Li.'<t of spccivicns of Eiivwrcs lafiscvlat^is — C'nntinued. 



EUMECES LATISCUTATUS OKABJE,<i new subspecies. 



Diagnosis. — Scales round the body 28-30; first upper labial form- 

 ing a suture with the nasal and the postnasal; a single postmental. 



Habitat. — Miyakeshima, Idzu Seven Islands, Japan (not to be con- 

 founded with Miyakoshima, Yaeyama Islands). 



Ti/pe.— U.S.Nil. No. 23891; Miyakeshima; May 3; N. Okada, col- 

 lector; topotypes in Science College Museum, Tokyo. 



Description of type-syecimen. — Rostral hept agonal, rather liigh, 

 and broad at top, though not bent much over on the upper surface; 

 nasal small with the nostril pierced in front of the center; a small 

 postnasal in contact with first and second supralal)ial (fig. 181); 



a Named for Mr. S. Okada, the author of the Catalogue of Vertebrated Animals of 

 Japan (Tokyo, 1891). 



