HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAN, 



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Since the above was written Doctor Wall has reported upon four 

 specimens from Amami-o-shima, obtained by ^fr. Owston's collectors. 

 Of these two agreed in having three longitutlinal dorsal black lines 

 narrower than the white intervals. One of these had indications of 

 another line in the flanks on each side. One had 12 and the other 

 14 black annuli. The ventrals and subcaudals were 208 + 29 and 

 198 + 28. Two others were pale pink witli a. single, narrow, vertebral 

 black line. One of these had 15 and the other 13 black annuli, and 

 the ventrals and subcaudals were 215 + 28 and 214 + 30. 



Habitat. — This form appears to be restricted to the 0-shima sub- 

 group of the Riu Kiu Archipelago, inasmuch as all the specimens sup- 

 plied with exact data have been taken in "Oo-shima," or as we prefer 

 to call it, Amami-o-shima, in order to avoid confusion with the many 

 other 0-shimas. 



Whiteh^'s specimen, upon wdiich Guenther founded the species, was 

 said to have come from Nagasaki. We know now that all his speci- 

 mens credited to that locality came from other places, the present one 

 almost certainlv from Amami-o-shima. " 



a Type. 



b Description, p. 388. 



HEMIBUNGARUS BOETTGERI& (Fritze). 



HAI ^according to Dr. Ijima). 



1892. CallopMs japonicns Boulencer, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (G), X, Oct. 1892, 

 p. 302 (Okinawa) (not of Guenther). — Boettgek, Offenl)ach. Ver. Naturk. 

 3.3-36 Ber., 1895. p. 115 (Okinawa). — I Jcmibuncjarus japonicns Boulenger, 

 Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Ill, 189G, p. 395 (part: Okinawa).— Boettger, 

 Kat. Schl. Mus. Senckenberg., 1898, p. 123 (Okinawa).— Wall, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1905, II, p. 515 (part: Okinawa). 



1894. CallopMs boeilgeri Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, p. 861; author's separate 

 p. 12 (type-locality, Tokuchimura, Okinawa shima; type in Mus. Sencken- 

 berg. ; Fritze, collector). — Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-36 Ber., 

 1895, p. 115 (Okinawa). 



a Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.. 111,'p. 395, footnote, has already intimated that this 

 specimen may have come from Riu Kiu. 



b For Dr. Oscar Boettger, the distinguished herpelologist and iiudacologist of Museum 

 Senckenl)ergianum, in Frankfurt am Main. 



