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Since the above was set in type Mr. Graham has sent another 

 specimen (No. 67778), also quite young, collected at Wanchan. It 

 agi'ees with the one described above, but has onl}^ three rows of 

 scales between subocular and supralabials, and about 13 between 

 supraoculars. Sc. 25 ; v. 209 ; subc. 88. 



TRIMERESURUS JERDONII Guenther 



1875. Trinieresurus jerdonii Guenther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875, 



p. 233, pi. 34 (type locality, Kliasi Hills, Assam; cotypes in Brit. 



Mus. ; T. C. Jerdon, collector). — Boulenger, Fauna Brit. India, Kept., 



1890, p. 427 (Khasi Hills ; Icbang, Cliina). 

 LacJiesis jerdonii Boulengek, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1896, p. 551 



(Assam; Kiatiangfu, Szechwan ; Icliang). — Wajll, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London. 1903, p. 99.— Werner, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II Kl., vol. 22, 



pt. 2, 1903, p. 367. 

 1889. Trinieresurus xanthonielas Guenther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 



6, vol. 4, Sept. 1889, p. 221 (tjTpe locality, Ichang, China; cotypes 



in Brit. Mus. ; A. E. Pratt, collector) ; in Pratt's To Snows of Tibet, 



1892, p. 241, pi. 1, fig. A (Ichang). 



A splendid specimen (No. 64639) of this rare species was collected 

 by Eev. D. C. Graham at Si-Gi-Pin, Mount Omei, Szechwan, on 

 August 3, 1921. It agrees in coloration with Pratt's Ichang speci- 

 mens as figured by Guenther. The scale formula is : sc. 21 ; v, 176 ; 

 a. 1; subc. 4:2-(-, The large smootJi temporal is a very striking char- 

 acter and serves at once to separate T. jerdonii from the other 

 Chinese species. The species has no particular relationship with 

 T. mucrosquamatus and T. elegans as surmised by me'^^ at a time 

 when it was unlaiown to me except from description. 



TRIMERESURUS GRAMINEUS (Shaw) 



For synonymy see Herpetology of Japan, 1907, p. 480, to which add : 



Stanley, Journ. N. China Asiat. Soc, vol. 45, 1914, p. 31 (Chekiang; 

 Fukien; Hainan) ; vol. 46, 1915, p. xiii (Ruling Swatow), vol. 47, 1916, 

 p. xiv (Hoihow; Foochow) ; vol. 48, 1917, p. xii. 



Two rather young specimens (Nos. 64022-23) from Moh-Kan- 

 Shan, Chekiang province) have been received from C. H. Barlow. 

 They are in every way typical, green, with tail end more brownish, 

 and a well-marked yellow lateral stripe. 



«'' Herp. Japan, p. 468. 



