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S. Peterburg (8), XVII, No. 1, 1905, p. 203 (Japan: Unzen; Hongkong).— 

 Compsosoma quadrivirgatinn Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., VII, 

 Pt. 1, 1854, p. 301 (Japan). — Elaphis quadriviryatus Guenther, Cat. 

 Colubr. Sn. Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 94 (Japan).— Jan, Icon. Ophid., livr. 

 24, 1867, pi. I, fig. 1 (Japan). — Hilgendorf, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. 

 Fr. Berlin, 1880, p. 114 (Hakodadi; Tokyo; Nambu, NE. Hondo).— 

 Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 68 (Tokyo; Hakone; Nii shima; Koze 

 shima; Awaji; Suwo; Yezo). — Elaphis quadrivirgata Martens, Preuss. 

 Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool., I, 1866, p. 112 (Nagasaki); 1876, p. 379 (Yoko- 

 hama). — Hilgendorf, Mitth. Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asiens, I, heft 10, 

 1876, p. 30 (Yezo; Tokyo). — Fritze. Mitth. Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asiens, 

 V. heft 46, 1891, p. 238 (Yezo). 



1826. Coluber vulneratus Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 212 (type-locality, Japan; Blomhoff, 

 collector) . 



1837. Coluber virgatus Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Kept., Ophid., 

 pi. i» (error; not of text). 



1860. Elaphis bilineatus Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 497 (type- 

 locality. Volcano Bay. Yezo; Doctor Morrow, collector). 



1860. Leptophidiinn dorsale Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 498 (type- 

 locality, Hakodate, Yezo; Stimpson, collector). 



1867. Elaphis quadrivirgatus var. interrupta Jan, Icon. Opliid., livr. 24, pi. i, fig. 

 2, cover p. 2 (type-locality, Japan; type in Mus. Milano). 



1867. Elaphis quadrivirgatus var. atra Jan, Icon. Ophid.. livr. 24, pi. i, fig. 3, 

 cover p. 2 (type-locality, Japan; type in Mus. Milano). — Coluber quadri- 

 rirgatus var. atra Boettger, Kat. Schl. Mus. Senckenberg., 1898, p. 53 

 (Japan). 



I liaye no doubt that LeptopJiidium dorsale, Hallowell is correctly 

 referred here as a synonym. The type seems to be kist, but I have 

 before me a young E. quadrivirgata from Yezo (U.wS.N.M. No. 23435), 

 which agrees with Hallowell's description in every particular, except 

 in the number of ventrals (100, which of course is erroneous and prob- 

 ably a misprint for 200) and in the shape of tlie pu})ii which Hallowell 

 says is "ovoid," but the latter statement is easily accounted for. 



Description (figs. 27 9-2SI).— Adult female: U.S.N.M. No. 31819; 

 Yamagawa, province of Satsuma, Kiusiu; June 14, 1903; Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith, collector. Rostral much broader than high, visi- 

 ble from above; internasals about as long as broad, smaller than pre- 

 frontals which are broadl}^ in contact with supraocular; frontal as 

 long as its distance from tip of snout and as the interparietal suture^ 

 broader in front than behind; parietals one-fourth longer than dis- 

 tance of frontal from tip of snout; nostril large, roundish between 

 two subequal nasals; loreal squarish, about as high as long; one pre- 

 ocular, not in contact with frontal; one subpreocular; two postocu- 

 lars; temporals 2 + 3; supralabials eight, fourth and fifth entering 

 eye; five lower labials in contact with anterior chin-shields which 

 are of the same length as the posterior; 19 rows of scales, the 11 

 median faintly, but distinctly keeled, the outer four on each side 

 smooth; ventrals 203, obtusely angulate laterally; anal divided; 87 



o Reproduced in this work on Plate XXI. 



