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of the former was apparently donated to the Philadelphia Academy 

 and served as type of Cope's E. semicarinatus; the other three are 

 still in the U. S. National Museum as No. 7354, but the identity of 

 each specimen was not maintained, and it is now impossible to point 

 out with certainty their individual origin. So much is certain, how- 

 ever, that the specimen now designated as No. 7354c is the type of 

 Hallowell's L. fasciatus, his description being based on that one 

 alone. I venture the guess that this is the second of the Perry expedi- 

 tion specimens and that the other two are Stimpson's specimens 

 from "Japan." 



There is indirect evidence that Hallowell was mistaken about these 

 two specimens of Lepidocephalus fasciatus being from "Japan" as 

 distinct from "Loo Choo." Altogether he recorded only the follow- 

 ing land snakes as being collected by the Rodgers expedition (W. 

 Stimpson) : 



From '■ Loo Choo: " 



P. 492. Bothrops Jlavovindis, 1 specimen from Amakarima Island, and 

 P. 493. Euryphohs semicarinatus, 2 specimens from near Napa, Loo Choo, caught 

 by Mr. Wright, Nov., 1855. 

 From "Japan:" 



P. 498. Leptopfiidium dorsale, 1 specimen, "taken on a hillside near Hakodadi, 



Island of Jesso, June, 1855, by W. Stimpson." 

 P. 498. Lepidocephalus fasciatus, 2 specimens. 



P. 499. Amphiesma tiynnum, 2 specimens "caught at Niphon, Japan, May, 1855, 

 bjf Mr. Stimpson. "a 



Dr. W. Stimpson, in his manuscript catalogue of specimens 

 brought home by the Rodgers Expedition, enumerates the following 

 specimens : 



From ' ' Loo Choo " : 



No. ^1??(. 2. Amakirrima, April, 1855. 



;k-200. Snakes taken near Napa, Loo Choo, Nov., 1854 (Wright). 



;^-199. Snake shot in a paddyfield, Loo Choo, Nov., 1854 (W. S.). 



X-187. Snake caught at Loo Choo, under a stone in low land, Nov., 1854 (W. S.). 

 From Japan : 



No. ^^-249. Snake taken on a hillside near Hakodadi, I. of Jesso, Japan, June 

 1855 (W. S.). 



;k-275. Simoda, Island of Niphon, Japan, May, 1855 (Mr. Brooke). 



;'-277. Simoda, Island of Niphon, Japan, May, 1855 (W. S.). 



It is plain that No. Am. 2 is Bothrops flavoviridis; No. ^-200 is 

 Eurypholis semicarinatus; No. ;^-249 is Leptophidium dorsale: and 

 Nos. ;^-275 and y-211 are the two specimens of Amphiesma tigri- 

 num. Thus all the specimens enumerated by Hallowell and Stimp- 

 son are accounted for except the latter's Nos. ;k-199 and ;-'-187 from 

 "Loo Choo" or Okinawa shima, and the former's two specimens of 



«The other snakes recorded are Elaphis bilineatvs, collected by Doctor Morrow, 

 and Proterodon tessellatus, without any record of locality or collector. 



