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To the known localities where this common and widely distrib- 

 uted snake occurs may be added southwestern part of Hunan (Nos. 

 63201-2, collected by Dr. Lewis R. Thompson) and Suifu, Szechwan 

 (No. 63415 by Eev. D. C. Graham) and Hangchow, Chekiang (No. 

 66458 by A. de C. Sowerby). D. C. Jansen has also sent us two 

 specimens from Shanghai (Nos. 46517^6518). 



Genus LYCODON Boie 



1826. Lycodon Boie, Ferussac's Bull. Sci. Nat., 1826, p. 238 (type. Coluber 

 aulicus Linnaeus ) .°° 



1830. Ophites Wagler, Syst. Amph., p. 186 (monotype, Lycodon subcinctus 



Boie). 

 1853. Sphecodes DumiSril and Bibron, Mem. Acad. Sci., Paris, vol. 23, 



p. 461, author's separate, p. 65 (monotype S. albofuscus). 

 1858. Leptorhytaon Guenther, Cat. Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., p. 205 



(monotype, Leptorhytaon jara). 

 1858. Tetragonosoma Guenther, Cat. Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., p. 253 



(monotype, Lycodon effraenis Cantor). 

 1868. Tytleria Theobaj.d, Cat. Rept. Asiat. Soc. Bengal Mus.. (p. 66) 



(type, T. hypsirhinoides Theobald). 

 1893. Anoplophallus Cope, Amer. Natural., 1893, p. 480 ; Trans. Amer. 



Philos. Soc, vol. 18, pt. 2, 1895, p. 216. (Type, A. maculatns Cope). 



LYCODON SUBCINCTUS Boie 



1827. Lycodon subcinctus Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 551 (type locality, Java). — 

 BouLENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1893, p. 359. — Wall, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1903, p. 88 (Hongkong). 



1860. Homalopsis buccatus Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1860, p. 504 (Hongkong Island) (not of Linnaeus). 



1884. Elapoides anmdatus Sauvage, Bull. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 8, 

 (p. 144) (type locality. Sumatra; type in Paris Mus.; P. Fauque, col- 

 lector). 



1895. Anoplophallus maculutus Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 18, 

 pt. 2, p. 216, pi. 26, fig. 2 (not Megalops maculatus Hallowell, 1860). 



The National Museum has not received any additional material 

 of this species, but I wish to place on record, U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 

 7359, which is the specimen mentioned by Hallowell (Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1860, p. 504) under the name " ? HomMopsis 

 htoccatus " as collected " on the Island of Hong Kong, May, 1854, 



^9 Type designation by Fitzinger, Neue Class. Rept., 1826. p. 29, p. 30. See Stejneger. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vo). .38, 1911, p. 107. 



