HEEPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 

 List of specimens of Dinodon orientate. 



375 



Museuin. 



U.S.N.M.. 

 Do.... 



Do.... 

 Sci. Coll., 



Tokyo. 

 Stockholm 



Do.... 



Berlin 



Brit. Mus . 

 Do.... 



No. 



34052 

 34543 



36542 

 64 



Sex and 



Young a 

 Halfgr.. 



...do.b. 

 Female 



418. ...do . 

 419 Male.. 



Youngc. 



Female d 

 ...do... 



Locality. 



Mount Fuji 



Isobe,near Yoko- 



Tokyo. 

 do. 



When 

 collected. 



Aug. — 



1904. 

 May 10 



By whom col- 

 lected or from 

 whom received. 



Murayama .Hondo 

 Nagasaki, Kiusiu. 



Tokyo 



Nikko. 

 ....do. 



1879. 

 Nov. 27 

 Dec. — 



1874. 



A. Owston 



....do 



Sci. Coll., Tokyo 



Dr.O.Nordquist 

 ....do 



Doctor Hilgen- 

 dorf. 



(". Maries 



do 



17 201 



17 203 



I [200 



17!Jor 



[[2O8 

 17; 202 

 17| 205 



m 



2 74 



2I. 



73 



2+3 

 2+2 

 2+2 



75:2+3 



72j2+3 

 74 2+2 



742+2 



68j2+3 



702+3 



1 Description, p. 373. 



b Sci. CoU., No. 64a. 



c Type, Hilgendorf , p. 116. 



dCotypes of O. japonicus, Boulenger, Cat. I, p. 364. 



Genus CALAMARIAa Boie. 



1827. Calamaria Boie, Ferrusac, Bull. Sci. Nat., IX, p. 236 (type, Coluber cala- 



marius). 

 1834. Changulia Gray, 111. Ind. Zool., II, (pi. lxxxvi), (type, C. albiventer). 



The range of the genus embraces the Malayan archipelago , extend- 

 ing into Burma, southern Cliina, and the Philippine arcliipelago. 

 One species is from the southern and middle group of the Riu Kiu 

 arcliipelago, and one is here recorded from Formosa for the first time. 



Of the Calamarias with four supralabials there is a small compact 

 group containing C. hrevis, from an unknown locality; C. pavimentata, 

 from Java; C. siamensis from the Indo-China peninsula and southern 

 China; 0. herezowskii from the upper Yangtse Valle}^ and Formosa; 

 C. septentrionalis from the lower Yangtse and the coast of China ; and 

 C. pfefferi from the Riu Kiu Archipelago. Boulenger has united C. 

 pavimentata and C. siamensis under the former name, but while I have 

 no specimens for comparison, the figures and descriptions show such 

 contradictions that I can not consider the question finally settled. A 

 long narrow head is characteristic of C. hrevis and C. pfefferi, which 

 also agree in the lack of a yellow collar and light spots. They are 

 probably nearly related. On the other hand O. siamensis, herezowsJcii, 

 and septentrionalis are very closely allied and I have some doubts 

 whether they are properly separated and whether the specimens from 



« Signifying like a reed, from KaXafio^, a tube, a straw. 



