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one side only, and of the fourteen others which have it on both sides, 

 no less than nine have the postnasal so large as to crowd the anterior 

 loreal away from the supralabials, so that onl}^ in five does 't come in 

 contact with the supralabials behind the postnasal and that not even 

 alwa3^s on both sides. 



Of 39 specimens, the only ones examined for this character, the 

 scale rows around the middle of the bod}^ are 28 in two only, 26 in 

 twenty-four, and 24 in tiiirteen. 



Habitat. — Apparentl}' confined to the large islands of Japan proper. 



The types came from the hills back of Simoda, and the species is 

 apparently quite common in that part of Hondo. We have a large 

 number from around Mount Fuji and from Yokohama; British 

 Museum has it from Miyanoshta and Nikko, whence specimens are 

 also in the Senckenberg Museum, and Okada records -it from Tokyo 

 and Hakone. From farther south the latter also indicates the prov- 

 inces of Awaji and Suwa; the Hamburg Museum has it from Kiyotaki 

 toge in the province of Kawachi (No. 1833), and the United States 

 National Museum from Koriyama, province of Yamato. From north- 

 ern Hondo there are no records. From Yezo, however, there is said 

 to be a specimen in the Senckenberg Museum received from Mr. B. 

 Schmacker,« and Doctor Fritze also indicates it from that island, with- 

 out giving his authority, however. If occurring there, it must be rare 

 or local. Dr. Hugh M. Smith brought us a fine series from Kochi, on 

 Shikoku, the onl}^ record from that island. He also collected it in the 

 extreme southern end of Kausiu at Yamagawa, province of Satsuma. 

 Our museum also has it from ]\Iiyazaki, and von Martens obtained it at 

 Nagasaki, from which locality the Riksmuseum in Stockholm also has 

 a specimen (No. 2319), collected by Dr. Oscar Nordquist in October, 

 1879, during the Vega expedition. 



List of specimens of Euvieces latiscutatus . 



"See, however, remarks on alleged Yezo specimens by the same collector, pp. Ill, 

 and 275. 



