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Family AGAMIDAE 



JAPALURA FLAVICEPS Barbour and Dunn 



1896. Japalura yiinnanensis Guexther, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. St. 

 P6tersbourg, vol. 1, p. 203 (Riv. Tung, Szechwan) (not of Anderson). — 

 Babboub, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, no. 4, Augu.st, 1912, p. 134 

 (Tung River, Szechwan). 



1919. Japalura flaviceps Barbour and Dunn, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 

 vol. 7, Oct. 10, 1919, p. 16 (type-locality. Shores of Tung River, western 

 Szechwan; type, Mus. Comp. Zool., no. 12469; W. R. Zappey, collector). 



This species which is considerably smaller and less conspicuously 

 marked than /. splendida appears to be confined to the hifjher alti- 

 tudes of western Szechwan and Yunnan. Until recently, when Bar- 

 bour and Dunn separated the three species, both were confounded 

 with /. yunnanensis. There is consequently doubt yet as to the 

 pertinency of some of the older records. Thus, while there is no 

 doubt that the Japalura collected by Potanin on the Tung River 

 belongs here, as practically from the type-locality, there is no such 

 certainty as to the specimen collected by Berezowski at Lunganfu, 

 Szechwan, both of which were recorded by Guenther, in 1896, as /. 

 yumianensis. This doubt is now set at rest hy the receipt of a splen- 

 did series collected by Mr. Graham at Mowchow at an altitude of 

 5000 feet (Nos. 67820-7) and at Wanchow (Nos. 67776-7). 



Rev. D. C. Graham collected eleven good specimens representing 

 both sexes and young on his trip to Tatsienlu, consequently not far 

 from the type locality. Six (Nos. 66536-41) were from within 30-40 

 miles of Tatsienlu, and five (Nos. 66637-41) from Lu-ding-chiao on 

 the Tung River, all at altitudes ranging between 4,500 and 6,000 

 feet. 



JAPALURA SPLENDIDA Barbour and Dunn 



1870. Japalura siciiikoii Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1870, p. 411 

 (Chunkingfu, Szechwan) (not J. swinhonis Guenther). 



1885. Japalura yunnanensis Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 310 

 (Szechwan) (not of Ander.sou). — Guenther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 

 6), vol. 4, 1889, p. 218 {yunnansis, err. typ.) (Ichang) ; in Pratt's To 

 Snows of Tibet, 1892, p. 239 (Ichang).— Stejneger, Herp. Japan, p. 187 

 (Chinliug Mountains, Shensi). 



1019. Japalura splendida Bakboub and Dunn, Proc. New England Zool. 

 Club, vol. 7, Oct. 10, 1919, p. 18 (type locality, Gorge of the Yangtse 

 River near Ichang, Hupeh ; type, U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 35522 ; E. Black- 

 welder, collector). 



In addition to the material upon which Barbour and Dunn 

 founded the species, namel}', the type No. 35522, from the gorge of 

 the Yangtse near Ichang, the paratypes No. 35523, from near 

 Taninghsien at the eastern end of the Chihsiting Pass, eastern Szech- 

 wan near the Hupeh border, and No. 35524 from Liang-ho, Chin- 

 ling Mountains, southern Shensi. all collected by Prof. E. Black- 

 welder in 1904, the Museum has now a fine series of six elegant 



