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ELAPHE SCHRENCKIIu Strauch. 



1873. Elaphis schrenckii Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbnurg (7), XXI, no. 4, 

 pp. 100, 272 (type-locality, Khinggan Mil. Post, eastern Si])eria; type, 

 No. 3706 St. Petersb. Acad.Mus.; Schrenck, collector). — Coluber schrenkii 

 BouLENGKR, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), V, Feb. 1890. p. 139 (Ussiiri River; 

 Brit. Mus.); Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 48 (Ussuri R.; Seoul, 

 Korea).— Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, pp. 92, 100 (Amurland; 

 Korea; N. Japan). — Nikolski, Zap. Imp. Akad. Nauk, S. Peterburg (8), 

 XVII, no. 1, 1905, p. 260 (Amurland; Korea, etc.). 



1888. Elaphis rirgaius Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 26-28 Ber., p. 72 

 (Korea; Mus. Senckenb.; Moellendorff, collector) (not of Schlegel). 



1898. Coluber schrencH Bo-ETTGEn, Kat. Schl. Mus. Senckenberg., p. 51 (Korea). 



Description. — Male adult; U.S.N.M. No. 21187; Seoul, Korea; 

 August, 1887; P. L. Jouy, collector. Rostral much broader than 

 high, visible from above; internasals longer than broad, much smaller 

 than prefrontals, which are in contact with supraocular; frontal 

 shorter than its distance from tip of snout, equaling interparietal 

 suture, much wider anteriorly than behind, the sides strongly con- 

 vergent backward; supraoculars narrower than frontal; parietals 

 rather short, equaling frontal and half of interprefrontal suture; nos- 

 tril large, round, between two subequal nasals; loreal longer than 

 high; one preocular, not in contact with frontal; one small subpre- 

 ocular (absent on left side) ; two postoculars (lower fused with fifth 

 supralabial on right side); temporals 2 + 3; eight supralabials, sev- 

 enth largest, fourth and fifth entering eye; four lower labials in con- 

 tact with anterior cliin-shields ; posterior chin-shields shorter than 

 anterior; 23 rows of scales, the median ones distinctl}^ keeled, the 

 keels becoming more and more indistinct on the sides, disappearing 

 entirely on the outer four or five rows; 214 ventrals, with indistinct 

 lateral angle; anal divided; subcaudals, 70 pairs. Color (in alcohol) 

 above dark isabella-color, with scattered black specks occupying part 

 of a scale; on the neck these spots become more numerous, and to- 

 ward the tail the edges of the scales become dusky, wdth indications 

 of longitudinal lines; head above like the back, with irregular dusky 

 spots; supralabials wliitish, except the last, all with black posterior 

 edge; a black line obliquely from eye to edge of lip anterior to corner 

 of mouth; indications of a pale black-edged line between nostril and 

 eye; lower labials with dusky posterior edges; underside whitish, 

 the anterior ventrals dark-edged. 



a For Dr. Leopold von Schrenck, the celebrated Russian natiu'alist and explorer of 

 Amurland. He was born in the Kharkov government on April 24, 1826, and died in 

 St. Petersburg on January 20, 1894, when director of the Anthropological-Ethnographi- 

 cal Museum of the Academy of Sciences. He traveled in eastern Siberia and in 

 Saklialin during 1854-1856. 



