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there is also a large specimen with mutilated tail in the Imperial Mu- 

 seum, Ueno Park, Tokyo (No. 6), and another in Science College 

 Museum, Tokyo (No. 5). Another large specimen (No. 89) is in the 

 same museum, collected by Mr. Tashiro in Iriomote shima, and a spec- 

 imen from the same island in the Hamburg Museum (No. 2590) col- 

 lected by Doctor Lenz on March 13, 1897, was obtained in the moun- 

 tains of the interior, according to a note attached to it.. Dr. Wall 

 has recently recorded a specimen from Ishigaki shima. 



List of specimens of Elaphe schmackeri. 



a V. 323, figs. 275-276. 



b Type. 



ELAPHE CLIMACOPHORA" (Boie). 

 AOBAISHO. 



1826. Coluber dimacophonis Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 210, (type-locality, Japan; Blom- 

 hoff, collector).— BouLENGER, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 54 (Naga- 

 saki; Nikko; Miyanoshta; Mt. Onsen, Shimabara). — Boettger, Kat. 

 Schl. Mus. Senckenberg., 1898, p. 52 (Hakone Mts. ; Miyanoshta; Nikko). — 

 Wall, Proc. Zool. See. London, 1903, p. 100 (Nikko); 1905, II, p. 514 

 (Hondo). — Werner, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. (Muenclien), II Klasse, 

 XXII, Pt. 2, 1904, p. 356 (Tsingtau and Hankow, China). 



1837. Coluber virgatus Schlegel, Phys. Serp., I, p. 146; II, p. 145 (type-locality, 

 Japan; types in Leiden Mus.; Buerger and Siebold, collectors) (not of 

 Bonnaterre, 1790). — ScHLECrSLand Temminck, Fauna Japon., Rept., 1837, 

 pp. 83, 139 (Japan). — Elaphis virgatus DuMERiLand Bibron, Erpet. Gen., 

 VII, Pt. 1, 1854, p. 261(Japan).— Bleeker, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederland. 

 Indie, XVI, 1858, p. 204 (Japan).— Jan, Icon. Ophid., livr. 21, 1867, pi. i 

 (Japan). — Hilgendorf, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, 1880, p. 113 

 (Tokyo). — Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 68 (Tokyo; Osaka; Awaji; 

 Nagato; Yezo).— Wall, Journ. Bombay Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV, 1902, p. 

 375 (Arima). — Elaphis virgata Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asiens, 

 Zool., I, 1866, p. Ill; 1876, p. 379 (Yokohama).— Hilgendorf, Mitth. 

 Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asiens, I, heft 10, 1876, p. 29 (Tokyo).— Fritze, Mitth, 

 Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asiens, V, heft 46, 1891, p. 238 (Yezo). 



1837. Coluber quadrivirgatus Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Rept., 

 Ophid. pi. II (error; not of the text). 



oFrom KXi/ia^, ladder, cpopci, carrying; referring to the pattern on the back. 



