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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



NATRIX PRYERI« (Boulenger). 



GARASU HEBTT (Okada). 



Plate XX. 



1887. Tropidonotus pryeri Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 149, pi. 

 XVIII, fig. 3 b (type-locality " Loo Choo Islands;" types in Brit. Mus.). — 

 Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus, I, (1893), p. 250 (Great Loo Choo I.).— 

 Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 862; author's separate p. 13 

 (Nafa, Okinawa shima). — Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-36 

 Ber., 1895, p. 107 (Okinawa shima; Miyakoshima group); Kat. Schlangen 

 Mus. Senckenberg., (1898), p. 26 (Okinawa shima and Miyakoshima); 

 Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, p. 100("Nawa, LooChoos"); 1905, 

 II, p. 515 (Okinawa; Amami; Irimote). 



Description. — Adult female; Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 6; 

 Iriomote shima, southern group, Riu Kin Archipelago; Tashiro, col- 



FiGS. 247-249.— Natrix pryeri. ]§ X NAT. SIZE. 247, TOP OF head; 24S, side of head; 249, underside 

 OF head. No. 6, Sci. Coll. Tokyo. 



lector (figs. 247-249). Rostral nearly twice as broad as high, just 

 visible from above; internasals fully as long as prefrontals, rather 

 truncate anteriorly, their suture with rostral equaling that of the 

 latter with first supralabial; prefrontals in contact with supra- 

 oculars; frontal longer than its distance from tip of snout, wdder in 

 front than behind, wider than supraoculars; parietals longer than 

 distance of eye from tip of snout; nostril between two subequal 

 nasals; loreal longer than high; one preocular, not in contact with 

 frontal; three postoculars (normal), four on right side; 2 + 1 tem- 

 porals, the lower one of the second row on both sides abnormally 



a For Henry James Stovin Pryer, a well-known naturalist and collector, who lived, 

 as a merchant in Yokohama for many years. He was at one time connected with the 

 Museum of the Educational Department Museum in Tokyo. Bora in London, June 

 10, 1850; died in Yokohama, February 17, 1888. 



b Reproduced in this work on Plate XX. 



