HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAI^T. 



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Hahitat. — Swinlioe collected two lialf-grown specimens in Formosa, 

 which are in the British Museum. The Science College, Tokyo, has 

 several striped specimens from Taipa, Formosa (No. 20), collected in 

 October, 1896, and one nearly uniform specimen (No. 19) from the 

 Pescadores Islands, January, 1897. 



The species is known from the mainland of China between Shanghai 

 and the province of Fokien as far inland as Kiukiang, on the Yangtse 

 River. 



List of specimens of Eumeccs elegans. 



Museum. 



U.S.N.M 



ScI. Coll. Tokyo . . 



Do 



Do 



No. 



36507 

 20 

 20 

 ]9 



Sex 

 and 



(a) 



C^) 



Locality. 



Taipa, Formosa 



do 



do , 



Pescadores Islands . 



When 

 collected. 



Oct., 



do. 



do. 



Jan., 



1897 



By whom col- 

 lected. 



T. Tada . 



do... 



....do... 

 ....do... 



a Description, p. 204. 



b Figs. 182-183. 



c P. 205. 



EUMECES MARGINATUS" (Hallowell). 



1860. Plestiodon marginatus Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 18(30, p. 492 (type- 

 locality, "Loo Choo Island;" type, U.S.N.M. No. 11713; AV. Stimpson, 

 collector). — Eumeces marginatus Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., Ill, 



1887, p. 371 (part: Nara); Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), X, Oct. 1892, p. 302 

 (Okinawa; Hoist, collector). — Boettger, Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 



1888, Abh. p. 188 (0-shima, Rin Kin).— Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, 1891, 

 p. 70 (part: Okinawa).— Fritze, Zool. Jalirb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 860; 

 author's separate, p. 11 (part: Okinawa). — Brown, Proc. Phila. Acad., 

 1902, June 11, p. 185 ("Loo Choo Island.3," probably Okinawa shima). 



The larger of Hallowell' s two types, said to have been collected on 

 "Ousima" (i. e., Amami-o-shima) , appears to have been lost, and as 

 it would be utterly impossible from his description now to decide one 

 way or the other, all we can do is to accept the other specimen, viz, 

 the one which Dr. W. Stimpson collected in " Loo Choo Island " April, 

 1855, and which is now before me, United States National Museum 

 No. 11713, as the type upon which to base the name. 



This specimen agrees with numerous specimens from Okinawa 

 shima in every respect and a comparison with over sixt}' specimens 

 from Japan proper proves them to be unquestionably tlistinct. Not 

 only do the Okinawa specimens lack the postnasal, a character 

 which is usually conceded to be of sufficient importance, but there 

 are material differences in other points, notably in the size and shape 

 of the large second loreal. This shield in the lliu Kiu specimens is 

 much lower and longer with less difference in the length of the ante- 



" Having a margin or edge; application obscure, but j)r()bal>ly the word is here used 

 loosely as meaning striped. 



