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lower pait-' (lirfy wliite, more or less dotted or sj)otted with 

 hrowii. Mule with an internal vocal sac and the throat 

 black. 



Total length 30 mm. 



Five sj)ecim('ns tVom Kanshirci. 



This very distinct species is namc(l after Dr. L. Stejtieger, 

 the author of a valuable monograph of the licptiles and 

 liatracliians of Japan and adjacent territories. 



Other Ratrachians inehuled in ^Ix. Sauter's collection are 

 l^tiiui knhiii, D. & B. (b'uhosho, Kanshirei, Alikang), with 

 which, I think, Stejneger's A', immiyei, from Okinawa, should 

 be united, R.hitouchii, Bigr. (Fuhosho), It. sunnlioana, BIgr. 

 (Ivosenipo), R/uico/Jiorus japonicus, Hallow. (^Rana macrupusj 

 lilgr.) (Kankau), R. iiffin<jiri, Oa3ttg. (Kanshirei), R. niol- 

 trechtij BlgT. (Ivosenipo), and Micruhijla Jissipts, Blgr. 

 (Kosempo and Kanshirei). 



Tropidonofus sauteri. 



]\Iaxillary teeth 23, posterior feebly enlarged. Head 

 small. Eye moderate. Rostral broader than deep, just; 

 visible from above ; internasals as long as broad, shorter than 

 the j)nvfrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as broad, a 

 little longer than its distance from the end of the snout, much 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; one prac- 

 and three postoeulars ; temporals 1 + 1 or 1 -|- 2; seven upper 

 labials, third and foiuth entering the eye ; four lower labials 

 ill contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are much 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales strongly keeled, of outer 

 row smooth or feebly keeled, in 17 rows. Ventrals 125-130; 

 anal divided; subcaudals 78. Dark grey-brown above, with 

 small black spots, with a rather ill-detined reddish-brown 

 streak on each side of the back, bearing, on the anterior part 

 of the body, a series of distant sn)all whitish sj^ots ; upper 

 surface of head with black vermiculation ; an oblique whitish 

 streak across each side of the nape; upper lip spotted black 

 and white ; lower j)arts yellowish white, with a black spot 

 near the outer end of each ventral, these spots forming a 

 strongly marked ventro-Iateral series. 



Two specimens, male (V. 125; C. 78) and female (V. 130 ; 

 0. ?), from Kosen)po. 



Allied to T. sicinkonis^ Gthr. 



Other snakes in the collection arc: — 7\ swin/ionis, Gthv. 

 (Kosempo), Culiinaria paviinentala^ \). ^Sc B. (Kosempo), 

 from which C. herezuwskii, Gthr., is probably not specifically 

 separable, and Dipsudomorpkus kniejielinif iSteju. (Kankau 

 Kosempo). 



