442 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MITSEUM. 



lliu Kills, although stray individuals are picked up rather frequenth^ 

 on the coasts of Japan proper. A Forinosan specimen is in Britisli 

 Museum collected by Swinhoe, and Mr. Tada also obtained it in that 

 island and recorded it from the Pescadores Islands; British Museum 

 furthermore has a specimen collected by Mr. Ferrie in Amami-o- 

 sliima, Riu Kiu, and Doctor Wall saw two or three more specimens in 

 Mr. Owston' s collection from the shores of the Riii Kins. Authentic 

 records for Japan proper show specimens obtained on the eastern 

 and the western shores. Thus Jouy collected one in the harbor of 

 Nagasaki on December 15, 1883; Okada mentions it as having been 

 found in the provinces of Idzumo, Hoki, and Noto, and Hilgendorf 

 records a specimen from the province of Kaga, all in Hondo, in the 

 Sea of Japan; the latter author also mentions having seen a speci- 

 men from "Setanai (Prov. Kunasiri) " " in the exhibition of the 

 government of Hokkaido. Doederlein mentions another specimen 

 from Yezo, probably also from the west coast. 



From the east coast we have in the U. S. National Museum two 

 specimens from the Bay of Sagami, one from the Bay of Suruga, and 

 one from Inatori, province of Idzu, opposite 0-shima; Doctor Wall 

 mentions another specimen from Sagami Bay, and Okada records 

 the species from Omaya Saki, province of Totomi. 



On the mainland side of the sea of Japan, Dr. B. Dybowski collected 

 a specimen in Possiet Bay, near the Korean boundary, the specimen , 

 according to Strauch, being in the museum in Warsaw. 



List of specimens of Hydnis plat urns. 



a Description p. 440. 



b Figs. .355-357 



Familv COBRID.E. 



As will be seen from the explanation under the generic name of 

 the only species of this family treateil of in this work, the term Vipera, 

 from which the family name Viperidx is derived, must be superseded 

 by Coluber. The confusion necessarily resulting from this transfer of 



« Kunashiri is an island off the northeast extremity of Yezo, but I have been unable 

 to find on my maps any locality of that name on Yezo itself. There is. however, a 

 Setanai in the province of 8hiribeshi, on the west coast of Yezo (about 42° 30' N. lat.) 

 which is possibly the place meant. 



