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obtained them at practically the same locality where 29 years be- 

 fore the Russian explorer G. Potanin had collected specimens which 

 Guenther, apparently misled by the fact that they had two post- 

 mentals and a postnasal, wrongly identified with the Emneces 

 xanthi which he himself described only seven years previously from, 

 specimens collected by Pratt at Ichang. 



SPHENOMORPHUS INDICUS (Gray) 



To synonymy in Herpetology of Japan, 1907, p. 216, add : 



Lygosoma indiciwi Boulengek, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, 



vol. 13, 1893, p. 319 (Tung-Yung Isl.).— Vogt, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. 



Freuude, Berlin, 1914, p. 99 (Canton). 

 Lygosoma (Hinulia) indioum Werner, Mitt. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol, 



27, 1910, p. 48 (Foochow). 

 Sphenomorphtis indicus Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 



vol. 3, Dec. 1912, p. 230 (Huchow, Che-Kiang). 



This widely distributed species is represented by seven specimens^ 

 two adults and one very young from Mount Wa (Nos. 65457-9) ^ 

 and a young from Mount Omei, Szechwan, all by D. C. Graham, 

 one adult by Prof. Blackwelder from Shi-Chuen-Hsien, Shensi (Nos. 

 35627) and two, one young and one adult from near Yenpingfu, 

 Fukien (Nos. 65369 and 65368). The latter is very large, has 38 

 scale rows; the young one has 40 scale rows and in both only two 

 supraoculars touch the frontal on both sides; in the young one the 

 anterior projections of the frontoparietals are abnormally separated 

 off as two small shields. The scale rows in the others are 34 in 

 all four Szechwan specimens, and 36 in the one from Shensi ; in all 

 these 3 supraoculars are in contact with the frontal. It will thus be 

 seen that as Boulenger has recorded 34 and 36 scales in eleven 

 Fukien specimens,** this species goes through the whole gamut of 

 variation from 34 to 40 scale rows in that province. 



LEIOLOPISMA LATERALE (Say) 



For synonymy see Herpetology of Japan, 1907, p. 218, to which add : 

 Leiolepisma laterale Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, no. 4, 



Aug. 1912, p. 135 (Washan, western Szechwan ; Yiinnanfu). 

 Lygosoma rcevesii Guexther, in Pratt's To Snows of Tibet, 1892, p. 239 



(mountains north of Kiukiang ; and at Mo-.si-mien Pass, 12,800 ft. alt., 



Szechwan ) . 

 Lygosoma laterale recvesii Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci. 



(4) vol. 3, Dec. 1912, p. 237 '(China and Tsushima). 



Four Chinese specimens are now before me : One from Hsin-Lung- 

 Shan district. Imperial Hunting Grounds, Chilili, 65 miles NE. of 

 Peking, by Sowerby (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 60862) ; one from Mount 

 Omei, Szechwan, by Graham (No. 64640), and two from Nanking, 

 Kiangsu, one by J. T. Illick (No. 65095). and one by Prof. C. 

 Ping (No. 65522). 



**Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 162. 



