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itself it has been collected more recently by Moellendorff, Campbell, 

 Ferebee and Joiiy. It seems to be rather common in Korea, espe- 

 cially around Seoul whence Jouy brought us four specimens. 



Strauch enumerates two specimens in the St. Petersburg Museum 

 as having been collected by Mr. Goschkewitsch in Japan, and as this 

 gentleman was for some little time Russian consul in Hakodate, i 

 Strauch assumes that they were collected in Yezo. The occiu'rence of 

 this species in Japan is entirely unconfu'med and the probability is 

 that the specimens really came from the mainland opposite, though 

 possibly sliipped from Japan. In this comiection it is well to remem- 

 ber that Elaphe dione is also credited to Yezo by the same authority 

 on material from the same source. Neither the one nor the other 

 species has been found on Japanese territory by other collectors." 



List of specimens of Elaphe schrenckii. 



a Total length, 1,635 mm. 

 b Description, p. 313. 



c Boettger. 



d Boulenger, Cat. II, p. 



f Boulenger, p. 49. 

 /Strauch, p. 272. 



ELAPHE DIONE 6 (Pallas). 



177.3. Coluber dione Pallas, Reise Riiss. Reichs, II, p. 71,7 (type-locality, "Salt 

 steppes toward the Caspian Sea"). — Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (6), V, Feb., 1890, p. 138 (Ussuri River; Peking); Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., II, 

 1894, p. 44 (southern Russia to Japan). — Boettger, Ber. Senckenberg. 

 Naturf. Ges., 1894, p. 149 (Chefu, China); Kat. Schl. Mus. Senckenberg., 

 1898, p. 51 (Chefu; Turkesfan).— Stone, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1899, p. 184 



c See also under Aghistrodon blomhoffii, p. 452. 



b From Jicovt/, a name in Greek mythology, the mother of Aphrodite. 



