ART. 25 CHINESE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES STEJNEGER 91 



by Mr. Brooke, of the North Pacific Exploration under command 

 of Capt. John Kogers, U. S. N." 



In connection with this specimen another error should be cor- 

 rected. It is the same specimen which Cope introduced as the type 

 of a new genus, Anoflophallus^ to be known as A. inaculatus^ 

 under the mistaken notion that it was the type of Hallowell's Mega- 

 lops macvlatus^ which apparently has been lost. The blunder is 

 manifest by examining Hallowell's description of the generic char- 

 acters, among which " a f renal ; two antoculars," etc., while Cope 

 himself correctly (for Lycodon subcinctus) says " a long loreal and 

 no j)reocular plate." 



What Hallowell's Megalops maculatus from Tahiti really repre- 

 sents is still a mystery, but Cope's AnoplophalJus maculatus is un- 

 doubtedly a synonym of Lycodon suhcinctus. 



LYCODON AULICUS (Linnaeus) 



1758. Coluier attlicus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol 1, p. 220 (type 

 locality, "America"; type in Mus. Adolph. Fred.) : ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 

 381.— Anderson, Bill. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 24, pt. 4, no. 6, 

 1899, p. 16 (type). 



Lycodon auli-cus Fitzingee, Neue Classif. Rept., 1926, p. 57. — Steindach- 

 NER, Reise Novara, Rept., 1867, p. 74 (Amoy). — Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. 

 Naturk., 26-28 Ber., 1888, p. 84 (Hongkong).— Boulenger, Cat. Snakes 

 Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1893, p. 352.— Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903. p. 

 88 (Hongkong? Amoy?). — Werner, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II Kl, vol. 

 22, pt. 2, 1903, p. 364 (Hongkong).— Stejneger, Herp. Japan, Bull. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., no. 58, 1907, p. 358. 



The doubt as to the occurrence of this species in southern China 

 voiced by Doctor Wall in 1903 has not been entirely removed, though 

 I still think that the specimen in the Hongkong Museum credited 

 to Formosa is in reality from Hongkong,^" if Chinese at all. 



CALAMARIA SEPTENTRIONALIS Boulenger 



1888. Galamaria quadrhnaculata Guenther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 6), 

 vol. 1, 1888 (p. 165) (Mts. N. of Kiukiang) (not of Dumeril and 

 BiBRON, 1854) ; in Pratt's To Snows of Tibet, 1892, p. 239. 



1890. Galamaria septentrionaVis Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1890, 

 p. 34 ( type locality, Kiukiang and Hongkong, China ; cotypes in Brit. 



"" See Herp. Japan, p. 358. 



