CHINESE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES STEJNEGER 



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imeiis (Nos. 64426, 64428 

 and 66533) from the 

 neighborhood of Mount 

 Omei, at 4,400 feet alti- 

 tude. While I was writ- 

 ing the Herpetology of 

 Japan, the National Mu- 

 seum had no specimen 

 from China except the 

 type of Hallowell's Her- 

 petodryas chloris, from 

 Hongkong. There is now 

 a splendid series of 13 

 additional specimens, 

 from Fukien (Sowerby), 

 Chekiang (C. H. Bar- 

 low), Hunan (Dr. Lewis 

 E. Thompson) and 

 Shanghai (D. C. Jansen), 

 as listed below. The 

 table also shows tlie re- 

 markable uniformity of 

 the scalation of this spe- 

 cies. The most notable 

 exception is No. 66533, 

 an adult female from 

 Mount Omei, which has 

 three postoculars and an 

 undivided anal, the latter 

 being a character of the 

 related species Liopeltis 

 dor'iae ( Boulenger) , from 

 the Kakhyen Hills and 

 Assam. 



All the specimens have 

 a seniidivided nasal as 

 stated by Boulenger, 

 and a reexamination of 

 the type of Herpetodryas 

 chloris has convinced me 

 that it does not differ es- 

 sentially from the others. 



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