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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Variation. — The specimen described above is probably abnormal in 

 the exclusion of the anterior loreal from the nasal. In the descrip- 

 tions of Chinese specimens 26 scale rows are sometimes indicated. In 

 adult specimens the adpressed limbs are described as not overlapping. 



The young are described as "dark brown above, mth three longi- 

 tudinal light bands on the back, the median broadest and not bifur- 

 cating anteriorly." 



Habitat. — Eastern Cliina from the island of Hainan northw^ards to 

 Shanghai. It has also been recorded fi'om Formosa. Swinhoe found 

 it at Tamsui, and an apparently somewhat abnormal specimen col- 

 lected by j\Ir. Tada at Tai]:)a has been described and conunented upon 

 above. 



List of speciniens of Eumen's chinensis. 



Sci. Coll. Tokyo. 



Afro. 



Adolesc. «. 



Locality. 



Whon 

 ccillectLMl. 



By whom 

 collofled. 



TaipM , Formosa Oct. — , 1896 T. Tada . 



"Description, p. 208; fig. 185. 



EUMECES KISH&NOUYEIe Stejneger. 



190L Eumccrs Hshinouyei Stejneger, Proc. Biol. Soc. \\'ashingl()]i, XIV, Dec. 

 12, 1901, p. 190 (type-locality, Miyakoshiina, Sakishiiiia grunp. Riu Kin; 

 type Sci. Coll. Mus. Tokyo, no. 22). 



Description. — Adult; Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 22; 

 Miyakoshima, Riu Kiu AiThipelago; Tashiro, collector, type (figs. 

 186-189.) — Rostral small, nearly triangular, the portion visible from 

 above much smaller than f ronto-nasal ; supranasals in contact behind 

 rostral; nostril in the center of a single nasal; a narrow, pentangular 

 j^ostnasal, in contact with sup)ranasal, first and second supralabials ; 

 fronto-nasal broader than long, not in contact with rostral, but with 

 fi'ontal; prefrontals somewhat smaller than fronto-nasal, iui contact 

 with both loreals, upj^er preocular and anterior supraocular, but not 

 with each other; anterior ioreal alioiit half the size of the posterior, 

 in contact with second supralabial, supranasal, fronto-nasal, and 

 prefrontal; posterior loreal nearly as high as anterior, antl twice as 

 large, in contact with second and third supralabials, anterior loreal, 

 prefi'ontal, and upper preocular; uppei' preocular smaller than ante- 

 rior supraocular, widely separated from anterior loreal; frontal much 

 longer than parietals and its distance from tip of snout, with parallel 

 lateral edges being of equal w^idth in front and behind, in contact 



"Named in honor of Dr. K. Kishinouye, chief of (he Fisheries Bureau, Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture and Commerce, Tokyo. 



