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Shimabara by Hoist. Museum Senckenbergianum also has a speci- 

 men from Nikko, and finally the U. S. National Museum possesses 

 specimens from Satsuma and Miyazaki, Kiusiu, as well as from Osaka, 

 Oide, Simoda, Suruga, Mori, Yokohama, and Tokyo. Dr. H. M. 

 Smith collected numerous specimens in Shikoku. Dr. Wall has 

 recently recorded it from the islands of Yaku and Tanega, south of 

 Kiusiu. 



Its occurrence in Yezo is doubted by Fritze whose collectors failed 

 to obtain it in that island, and Nozawa does not include it in his list 

 of Yezo reptiles communicated to me, so there is apparently no 

 specimen in the Sapporo Museum. Boettger, however, records two 

 adult specimens which the Senckenberg Museum obtained from 

 Schmacker in 1889 as having been collected in Yezo. I must here 

 recall the fact, however, that specimens of Bona joponica and Eumeces 

 latiscutatus (see pp. Ill and 199) from the same locality and source are 

 not above suspicion. Altogether Schmacker' s Yezo records require 

 confirmation. 



It is not recorded from the Riu Kiu Islands. There is in the Impe- 

 rial Museum at Ueno Park, Tokyo, a specimen (No. 20) which is said 

 to have been collected at Naha, Okinawa shima. Beyond a some- 

 what unusual low number of ventrals plus subcaudals this specimen 

 is exactly like Tokyo specimens, and most likely some error has 

 occurred in labeling. 



