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scribed from Java, the species extends to Bengal and southern 

 China. Hallowell recorded it from Hongkong; Mueller from Li- 

 long, and Boettger from Canton and Mount Lofu-shan, all in the 

 province of Kwangtung. The National Museum has it from Canton 

 and Hongkong. I have compared these Chinese specimens with 

 material from Java and the Malay Peninsula in our collection and 

 find no characters to distinguish them, a remark perhaps not 

 superfluous in view of the fact that Mueller recorded his Lilong 

 specimen as 0. lima var. chinensis. 



Class REPTILIA 



Order LORICATA 



Family CROCODYLIDAE 



Genus ALLIGATOR Cuvier 



1807. Alligator Oxja'ier, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 10, p. 25 (type, 

 A. lucius=Lacerta alligator Blumenbach, part). 



ALLIGATOR SINENSIS Fauvel 



1879. Alligator sinensis Fauvel, Journ. N. Cliina Asiat. Soc, new series, 

 vol. 13, p. 34, pi. (type locality, Wahu ; type in Shanghai Mus.; 

 J. L. E. Palm, collector). — Vailiant, Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 6, ZooL, 

 vol. 9, 1880, art. no. 8, p. 1 (China). — Boettger, OfCenbach. Ver. Naturk., 

 24-25 Ber., 1885, p. 137 (Central China) ; 26-28 Ber., ISSS (p. Ill) ; 

 Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 1894, p. 142 (Wuhu, Anhwei. — 

 BouLENGER, Cat. Chel. Brit. Mus., 1889, p. 291 (Yangtse-Kiang) ; Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1890, p. 619, pis. 51-52 (Kiukiang). — Guenther, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 4, Sept. 1889, p. 219 (Kiukiang).— 

 Werner, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II Kl., vol. 22, pt. 2, 1903, p. 360.— 

 Barbour, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1910, p. 464 (Yangtse 

 River). Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 8, Sept. 1922, p. 32 

 (Wuhu).- — Stanley, Journ. N. China Asiat. Soc, vol. 45, 1914, p. 22 

 (Wuhu); vol. 49, 1818, p. xiv (AVuhu). — Gee, Journ. N. China Asiat. 

 Soc, vol. 50, 1919, p. 184 (Soochow). 



Alligator sinense Mook, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 48, Dec. 7, 1923, 

 p. 553 (lapsus) (skull). 



Two skins (Nos. 52557-58), 1,320 and 1,030 meters long, re- 

 s'pectively, have been received from L. I. Moffett. They were col- 

 lected near Huchow in the province of Chekiang. Both agree 

 closely with the beautiful figure of the head and neck of the speci- 

 men in British Museum, accompanying Boulenger's paper of 1890, 

 except that there are three scutes on each side of the occipital series. 

 Both have three pairs of nuchal scutes, six scutes in the fifth trans- 

 versal dorsal row. and 34 caudal whorls. 



