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a])parently always some distance back from the coast; for instance, 

 at Ningpo, Ichang, Chekiang, Kiukiang, etc. It seems probable 

 that it is confined to the more mountainous districts without coming 

 down on the alluvial plains. Four specimens said to be from Hoi 

 How, island of Hainan, were presented by J. Neumann to the British 

 Museum. This locality needs corroboration ^ (see pp. 326, 331 and 

 336). In Korea it has been collected both at Seoul and Fusan by 

 the late P. L. Jouy. 



Two male specimens from Formosa collected by Swinhoe are in 

 the British Museum. 



lAst of iipecimens of Aghist radon hlomJioffii brevicaudus. 



a Type; p. 463. ^ Total length, 335 mm. 



AGKISTRODON BLOMHOFFII INTERMEDIUS6 (Strauch). 



1859. Trigonocephalus blomhoffii M.^ack, Putesh. na Amur (p. 152) (Amurland) 

 (not of Boic;); Putesh. na Uasuri, 1861 (p. 190) (valley of the Ussuri).— 

 Strauch, Trudi Perv. Siezda Russkikh Yestestv., Zool., 1868 (p. 296); 

 Mem. Acad. Sci. St. P6tersb. (7), XXI, no. 4, 1873, pp. 251, 282 (Ussuri 

 and Amurland; Possiet Bay and Vladivostok; De Castries Bay); in 

 Przevalski's Mongoliya i Strana Tangutov, III, 1876, p. 52 (Ala-shan Gov- 

 ernment). — GiGLiOLi and Salv.adori, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 

 594 (part: OlgaBay, Russ. Coast Prov.). — Andstrodon blornhoffii'BovijEii- 

 GEn, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (G), V, Feb. 1890, p. 140 (Amurland;- Ussuri).— 

 NiKOLSKi, Zap. Imp. Akad. Nauk, S. Peterburg, (8) XYII, no. 1, 1905, 

 p. 329 (Amurl.; Ussuri, etc.) 



1868. Trigonocephalus interviedius Strauch, Trudi Perv. Siezda Russkikh 

 Yestestv., Zool., (p. 294); Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petcrsb. (7), XXI, no. 1, 

 1873, pp. 245, 282 (type-locality, Governni. Irkutsk, East Siberia; types in 

 St. Pet(!rsb. Acad.); in Przewalski's Mongoliya i Strana Tangutov, III, 

 1876, p. 52 (Ordos). — Ilalys intermedia Peters, Mon. Ber. Berllr Akad. 

 Wiss., 1877, p. 735 (Smeinogorsk, Tomsk Governm.). — Halys interrnediiis 

 BoETTGER, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 26-28 Ber., 1888, p. 153 (Nan-shaii, 

 near Kuku-nor, south. Gobi; Ala-shan Desert, Prov. Ordos; Russ. 

 Turkestan; east. Siberia). — Andstrodon interviedius Boulencjer, Ann. 

 Mag. Xat. Hist. (6), V, Feb. 1890, p. 140 (Kunges, east. Turkestan; 



a Bocourt (Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, II, 1866, Bull., p. 9), in a list of the reptiles 

 brought home by him from the southern provinces of Siam, mentions " Trigonocephalus 

 blomhoffii.'" Locality and identification need corroboration. ' 



6 Signifying intermecfiate, i. e., in characters between A. blomhoffii and A. halys. 



