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Naha, Okinawa shima, from whicli island there are now specimens in 

 various museums, thus in Science College Museum, Tokyo, and in 

 the Imperial Museum (Ueno Park), Tokyo, British Museum, and 

 Hamburg Museum (No. 1491), and Doctor Fritze states that it is not 

 rare there in summer. That it also occurs in the southern group is 

 shown by a ^Science College specimen (No. 15) and two in Museum 

 Senckenbergianum, all from Miyakosliima. Finally, Doctor Fritze 

 enumerates it as one of the species occurring in Amami-5-shima of 

 the northern group, a statement possibly based upon specimens 

 collected by Doctor Doederlein. Doctor Wall also records three speci- 

 mens from this island as having been secured by Owston's collectors. 

 Its alleged occurrence in Japan proper is entirely unsupported. 

 Whitely's specimen, upon which Guenther founded his Oydojns 

 nehulosus is said to have been obtained in Nagasaki, but all his birds 

 and reptiles credited to that locality most certainl}^ came from some 

 of the Riu Kiu Islands.*^ 



List of specimens of Liopeltis semicarinata. 



Sex and 

 age. 



1 When 

 ; collected. 



Do ,11127 



Do '.36518 



Sci. Coll., 



Tokyo. 

 Brit. Mus .. 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



1854. 

 Near Naha, Oki- i Nov. - 

 nawa shima. 



do do. 



".Japan" 



Okinawa shima. 

 15 I Young f I Miyakoshima . . 



Do I 7.3166 Female ft 



Malec.. 

 ....do.d 



Male / . . 

 ...do./ . 

 ...do./ . 

 Female / 

 ...do./ . 

 Young / 

 do.<7 . 



"LooChoo Lslds' 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Great LooChoo I 

 Nagasaki (?] 



By whom col- 

 lected. 



Wright. 



15 



186 



do 15 190 



Perry exped .... 15^ 191 



Tashiro ' 15' 187 



1,^' 189 



Nov. 



Pryer collection 15 190' 



do 15^ 190, 



do 1.5' 190' 



do 15 192 



do 15' IS7! 



Hoist ' 15 1851 



Whitely \ 15 174l 



2 77 



1+2 



1+2 



2 78 



2'....jl+2 

 2!. ...1+2 

 2 801+2 



821+2 

 761+2 

 ...|l+2 

 701+2 

 72*1+2 

 761+2 

 74 1+2 



a Type; description p. 342, figs. 293-295. 



b Type. 



<■ P. .343. 



d Sci. Coll. No. 7. 



c Description, p. 341, figs. 30-292. 



/ Boulenger, Cat. II, p. 279. 



g Boulenger: type of C. vebulosus. 



LIOPELTIS HERMINiE 6 (Boettger). 



1895. Ablahes hrrnrinaf Boettger, Zool. Anz., XVIII. July 8, 1895, p. 2(59 (tjT)e- 

 locality, Miyakoshima, Sake shima group, Riu Kius; tyjje in Mus. 

 Senckenbei-g. ) ; Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 33-36 Ber., 1895, p. 110 (Miya- 

 koshima); Kat. Schl. Mus. Senckenberg., 1898, p. 78 (Miyakoshima). — 

 Boulenger", Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., Ill, 1896, p. 643.— W.vli., Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1903, p. 101 (Loo Choos); 1905, II, p. 515 (Iriomote). 



oSee alsoAVall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905, II, p. 515, footnote. 

 b Named for — ? 



