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also lias specimens from the latter island and tlie Hamburg Museum 

 from the former (No. 2579). United States National Museum has 

 thi'ee specimens from Ishigaki shima, and Doctor Wall examined 

 three more from the same island. Finall}^, Doctor Warburg also 

 collected it in Okinawa shima. (Hamburg Mus. No. 1545.) 



Doctor Wall also mentions a specimen in Owston's collection as 

 from "Japan." No other locality is given, and until further evidence 

 is produced it is permissible to question the occurrence of this species 

 in Japan proper. 



List of specimens of Dinodon walli. 



a Type, p. 364. 



b Figs. 307-309. 



c Boettger, p. 108. 



DINODON SEMICARINATUM" (Cope). 



AKAMATAH (on OKINAWA SHIMA, According to Mr. Tashiro). 

 MATSUTABU (on AMAMI-0-SHIMA. According to Mr. Nakagawa). 



1860. Eumesodon semicannatus Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 263 (type- 

 locality, "Loo Choo; " type in Phila. Acad. Mus.; Heine, collector); 

 1861, p. 75 (identity with L.fasdatus). — Dinodon semicarinatus Boulen- 

 GER, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), X, Oct. 1892, p. 302 (Okinawa shima); Cat. 

 Snakes Brit. Mus., I, 1893, p. 362 (Oho shima; Great Loo Choo Island).— 

 Brown, Proc. Phila. Acad., June 11, 1902, p. 185 ("Loo Choo Islands").— 

 Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, p. 100 (Loo Choos); 1905, II, p. 515 

 (Okinawa; Amami). 



1860. Lepidocephalus fasciatus Hallo well, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 498 (typ(! 

 locality, "Japan and Loo Choo;" types, U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 7354V 



The Perry expedition and the Rodgers expedition, according to 

 Hallo well, brought home four specimens of this species, namely, two 

 from "Loo Choo" by the former, two from "Japan" by the latter. One 



a Signifying half-carinated, with reference to the scales being keeled only in their 

 basal half. 



