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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



temperate Asia to the Amur country in the north and south through 

 eastern Cliina to Kiukiang, and possibly even to the island of Hainan." 



Dybowski, according to Strauch, collected it on the banks of the 

 Amur between Seljonoi-Less and Khabarovka, and also at Posiet 

 Bay. It is also recorded from the Ussuri, the Sungari, and upper 

 Amur, and the Hamburg Museum has a specimen each from Vladi- 

 vostok and Pokrovka, collected by Dieckmann (Nos. 2168, 2169). 

 The St. Petersburg Museum also has a specimen from Vladivostok, 

 collected by Doctor Zander. 



Schrenck and Doctor Ferebee obtained specimens in Korea and 

 Jouy brought home three specimens from Seoul. 



Two specimens obtained in 1861 by the St. Petersburg Academy from 

 the Russian consul in Hakodate, Mr. Goschkewitsch, are credited by 

 Strauch to Japan, but, as explained under the head of Elaphe schrenckii, 

 I do not place any faith in their having been collected in any of the 



Japanese islands. 



List of specimens of Elaphe dione. 



Museuni. 



Sex and 

 age. 



AVhen 

 collected. 



By whom col- 

 lected or froni 

 whom received. 



Do. 

 Do. 



14321' Young 



14331 

 14610 



Ala Tan, Sibe- 

 ria. 



Female" Amur land . . . 

 Male 6 . - Korea 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Brit. Mus. . 

 St. Petersb. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



21190, 



21193 



21194 



h. 



2910 



2911 

 2953 

 2954 

 3704 



Female « 

 Young c 

 Female . 

 Male <* . . 

 («) 



(0 

 {') 

 {') 

 (0 



Mus.St. Petersb. 



....do 



Dr. N. M. Fere- 

 bee. 



25 



Seoul, Korea... 



do 



do 



Ussuri River . . 

 Bikinda, Us- 

 suri. 

 Dshare, Amur. 



[Japan?] 



do 



Korea 



1883. 

 Oct. 8 

 June, — 

 Aug. — 



P. L. Jouy ... 



....do 



....do 



Warsaw Mus. 



205 



207 



^ 204 



23J 179 

 25: 183 



34-4 



2+4 

 2+3 



2+3, 



2+3| 

 2+2-3' 



Goschkewitsch 

 ....do 



a P. 317. 6 Description, p. 316. c Fig. 272. d Boulenger, Cat. II, p. 45. « Strauch, p. 271 



a This locality is given on the authority of a specimen in British Museum said to 

 have been collected at Hojhow by J. Neumann. It should be noted in this connection, 

 however, that several rather more northern forms have been attributed to the same 

 locality upon material received from the same source, such as Natrix tigrina, Dinodon 

 rufozonatus, Zamenis spinalis, Elaphe rufodorsata, Agkistrodon hlomhoffii. None of 

 these species have been found in that island by other collectors (see Boettger, Liste 

 der von der Insel Hainan bekannten Kriechthiere, in Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 

 1894, pp. 129-136. — Cope, On a Collection of Batrachia and Reptilia from the Island of 

 Hainan, in Proc. Phila. Acad., 1894, pp. 423-428. — Boulenger, On the Reptiles, Ba- 

 trachians, and Fishes collected by the late Mr. John WTiitehead in the Interior of 

 Hainan, in Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, pp. 956-962, pis. lxvi-lxix), and the sug- 

 gestion that these northern species might have come from the mountainous interior is 

 not supported by the result of ^^^litehead's expedition. It seems most conservative, 

 therefore, to wait for corroboration before the island of Hainan be given as an 

 undoubted locality for those species. 



