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Expedition, was recorded by Hallowell (U.S.N.M. No. 7381), and two 

 specimens obtained by Fryer's collector, probably in the same island, 

 are in British Museum. Two other specimens, also from Okinawa 

 shima, are in the Imperial Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo (Nos. 11, 12), 

 as well as one from the Yaeyama group (No. 13). In the latter 

 it must be common, for we have five specimens from Ishigaki 

 shima through Mr. Owston, and British Museum has one from the 

 same locality and collector through Doctor Wall. Similarly on the 

 coasts of Formosa, whence I have examined two in the University 

 Museum of Christiania, collected by Mr. Navara, and one from the 

 same source in our o^v^^ museum, obtained through the kindness of 

 Frof. Robert Collett. 



List of speciinens of Laticauda laticaudata. 



a Figs. 328-330. 



t> Description, p. 404. 



Boulenger, Cat. Ill, p. 308. 



[LATICAUDA COLUBRINA" (Linnaeus).] 



1758. Coluber laiicaudatus Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 10 ed., I, p. 222 (part); 12 ed., 

 I, 1766, p. 383. — Platurus laticaudatus Peters, Mon. Ber. Berlin Akad. 

 Wiss., 1877, p. 417 (part: Philippines; Amboina; Fiji Is.; New Hanover). 



1799. Hydrus colubrinus Schneider, Hist. Ampli., I, p. 238 (type-locality not 

 stated; type, no. 9078, Berlin Mus.). — Hydrophis colubrinus Schlegel, 

 Phys. Serp., II, 1837, p. 514, pi. xviii, figs. 21-22 (Moluccas, Timor, 

 Celebes; China Sea). — Platurus colubrinus Girard, Herpet. U. S. Expl. 

 Exped., 1858, p. 183 (Fiji and Tonga Is.). — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. 

 Mus., Ill, 1896, p. 308. — Boettger, Kat. Schl. Mus. Senckenberg., 

 1898, p. 114 (Philippines: Luzon, Cebu; Ternate; Tonga Tabu; Australia). — 

 Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, p. 101. 



« Signifying colubrine, like a Coluber; so named by Schneider because Linnaeus had 

 referred the species to that genus. 



