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BULLETIN 5S^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



List of specimens of Jaj^abira suinhonis. 



JAPALURA^ POLYGONATAa (Hallowell). 



Native name "ATAKAH." 



Plate XIV. 



1860. Diploderma polygonatuvi Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 490 (type- 

 locality, Kerama shima, "Amakarima," Riu Kiu Archipelago; type U.S. 

 N.M. No. 12203). — Japalura polygonata Guenther, Rept. Brit. India, 

 1864, p. 134.— BouLENGER, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., I, 1885, p. 310; III, 1887, 

 p. 493 ("Loo Choo"); Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 146, pi. xvii, fig. 1& 

 ("Loo Choo Islands."). — Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 71 (Okinawa 

 shima). — Boettger, Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 1888, Abhandl., p. 

 187 (0-shima, Riu Kiu); Kat. Rept. Mus. Senckenberg., I, 1893, p. 46 

 (0-shima); Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-36 Ber., 1895, p. 107 (Okinawa 

 shima).^ — Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 860; author's separate, 

 p. 11 (Okinawa).— Brown, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1902, June 11, p. 184 

 ("Loo Choo Islands."). 



This species agrees so closely with the preceding; one that a detailed 

 description is unnecessary. The differences, which consist chiefly in the 

 shorter legs and longer and narrower head of J. 'polygonata, have been 

 sufficiently indicated above under the general discussion of the genus 

 (pp. 182-184). 



The colors of the Okinawa shima specimens are said to be green in 

 life. Thus Doctor Stimpson in his manuscript catalogue describes 

 the type as being "dark green, back shaded, and tail annulated and 

 still darker." In the alcoholics there are distinct traces of the 

 dorso-lateral pale band as well as the pale line under the eye. 



o From noXvyGovQi;, with many angles, referring to the polygonal scutes of the head. 

 b Reproduced in this work on Plate XIV. 



