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Lewis E. Thompson in the southwestern part of Hunan are now in 

 the collection in addition to the Hongkong specimen listed in the 

 Herpetology of Japan. The scale formula of the Hunan specimen 

 is as follows : sc. on neck 25, on body 21 ; v. 167 ; a. 1 ; c. 49 ; 1. 7 ; oc. 

 1-| ; temp. 2+2. It will be seen that the sum of ventrals and sub- 

 caudals is 216, exactlj^ the average of the nine specimens previously 

 listed by me.^^ 



BUNGARUS MULTICINCTUS Blyth 



For synonymy see Herpetology of Japan, 1907, p. 397, to which add : 



Bunyarus caeruleus miilticinctiis Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, 



no. 4, 1912, p. 131 (Ichang, Hupeh). 

 Bungarus semifasckitus Stanley Journ. N. China Asiat. Soc, vol. 45, 1914, 



p. 30 (South China). 

 Bungarus candidus Stanley, Journ. N. China Asiat. Soc, vol. 45, 1914, p. 



30 (Chekiaug and Fukien) ; vol. 47, 1916, p. xiv (Ningteh, Fukien). 



Four specimens have been recently added to the national collec- 

 tion, two (Nos. 63199-200) from the southwestern part of the 

 province of Hunan by Dr. Lewis R. Thompson, one (No. 64646) from 

 Kuliang by C. R. Kellogg, and one (No. 65408) from Foochow, 

 Fukien, by Mr. Sowerby. The number of black rings on body and 

 tail is respectively 54, 47, 59, and 58, showing that the specimens 

 are of the normal pattern of this form. 



DISTEIRA CYANOCINCTA (Daudin) 



For synonymy see Herpetology of Japan, 1907, p. 428, to which add : 



Distira cyanocincta Wall, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 2, no. 8, 1909, 



p. 217. 

 Disteira cyanocincta Stanley, Jouni. N. China Asiat. Soc, vol. 45, 1914, 



p. 30 (Foochow, Fukien). 

 Lioselasma cyanocincta Wall, Snakes of Ceylon, 1921, p. 361. 



A single specimen (No. 46521) from Shanghai has been presented 

 by D. C. Jansen. 



Family CROTALIDAE 



Genus AGKISTRODON Beauvois 



In the Herpetology of Japan (p. 450) I referred to the " small 

 compact group consisting of the species Agkisti'odon halys, hlom- 

 hoffh and himalayanus occupying the vast territory from the Kas- 

 pian Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from Lake 

 Baikal in the north to the Hamalayas in the south " as being 

 " closely interrelated, in fact so nearly allied that their descent from 

 a common ancestor can not have taken place at a very distant 

 period." With regard to the nomenclatorial treatment of these 



«* Herpetology of Japan, p. 397. 



