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Dimensiom. 



920 



Total length g20 



Snout to vent j^q 



//.ftito^.-Distributed from Arabia in the west t« China in the east, 



1 hotu'-h apparently rather rare. , tt i 



B ill Museum ha. one specimen from Hongkong, and Her. col- 



lecte.l one at Hainan, wluch is now in the Senckenborg Museum. 

 It Urnot yet bee, reeorde.l from any locality w.tluu our terntory 



but^t seems Mghly probable that it occurs around Formosa at least 



occasionally. [Genus LAPEMIS" Gray.] 



1834. i„p».iG.M 111. I"<'-Z~- "(P'-^^^^^^'^.g ,.t^' Ma,h.-Na,. CI.. 

 1861. Pelamydoifu Fitzinoer, Sitz. Her. Akid. >' i -- 



XLII p 409 (typi', HydropUa pelmtivhuln bchlegoil. 

 Anart from the fact that Merrem's Enl,ydrk of 1820 is preoccupied 

 by Late 1 e for an entirely different kind of snake, that name c.n no 

 be u^d for a genus with Hydrus mrtus for type, as restricted by 

 Boutoter in 1890, because Wagler, as early as 1830, restricted it to 

 H J.::^!*., one of the species included by Merrem m his Enkydr^s. 



[LAPEMIS HARDWICKIIb Gray.] 

 Plate XXIV. 



fuvrdwickii GUENTHER, Rept. Brit. India, 1864, P" ^80, P^- ^^; ' ^^g; '^ 

 1 oiit,. Pinana-^y — MuELLER, Verli. Natiirf. Ges. Basel, \ ii, i't- i, 

 'sr^l a! h ?°ipa"l (p. 7, (China Sea).-W~ W««. 

 Zl'iZn. Fauna Br,,' India, Rep,.. 1890. p. 397; Cat^ Sn. Br,t. Mu. 

 III! 1896, p. 301 (Bay of Bengal to Chinese Sea and Now G,nnea).-W..... 

 Proe. Zool. Soe. London. 1903. p. 96 (Man.la; Bangle,*). 



o^R, OffenbLh. Ver. Xaturk. 17-18 Ber., 1878, p. 8 (Japan).-OKAi>., 

 Pet Vprt Tauan 1891, p. 69 (Okinawa Sea). 



1843. C»-"-« «--. ^-- ''^- ^■-- H-',^' <••• ^*> ('>'>-•»-'«>'• 

 Borneo- type in Brit. Mus.-, Beloher.collcetor). 



1856 w^ X"") p*»""°* ™'- "»•*'" irr 



H-imbure III p. 67, pi. iii»( Java; Hamburg Mus.). 



« Anagram of Pelamis. 



bFor Gen. Thomas Hardwicke, who collected the type. 



c Reproduced in this work on Plate XXIV. 



