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obtained a specimen at Fusan, southern extremity of Korea (U, S. 

 Nat. Mus. No. 17510), the first record from that country. 



A specimen in British Museum is said to have been collected by 

 Swinhoe in Formosa. It has the extraordinary low number of 127 

 ventrals, and altogether either its identity or its locality seeems open 

 to doubt.'' 



It has not been recorded from the Riu Kius. 



"See also Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905, II, p. 513. 



