188 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 47u Ser. 
INTRODUCTION 
This paper is made up of a series of notes upon Pais niene 
of reptiles and amphibians from China and the Japanese 
Empire, which the Academy has received during recent years. 
It is not in any sense an exhaustive account of these collec- 
tions. Instead, it deals only with certain species, nearly all of 
which have been collected by Victor Kthne in Formosa and 
the Loo Choo Archipelago. A few species from China, Japan 
proper, the Pescadores, Botel Tobago, Wake, and the Bonin 
islands also are included; but a large proportion of the species, 
even from Formosa and the Loo Choo Islands, have not been 
studied at all. 
One genus and the following species and subspecies are 
here first described, although advance diagnoses of these forms 
were published July 29, 1912.* 
Ayla hallowelh 
Japalura polygonata ishigakiensis 
Japalura polygonata miyakensis 
Eumeces barbourt 
Eumeces marginatus amanuensis 
Eumeces marginatus kikaigensis 
Eumeces ishigakiensis 
Eumeces chinensis formosensis 
Sphenomorphus indicus formosensis 
Sphenomorphus boulengert 
Leiolopisma laterale formosensis 
Leiolopisma laterale boettgert 
_Lygosaurus pellopleurus brownt 
Takydromus stejnegeri 
Achalinus wernert 
Calhophis swinhoet 
From a study so incomplete as this, it is indeed difficult 
to draw conclusions of value regarding the past changes in 
the land and water areas of the region involved. We may, 
however, state rather positively that changes have been more 
numerous, and land-connections more complicated, than in the 
Galapagos Archipelago. Although not here set forth, there 
* Advance Diagnoses of New Reptiles and Amphibians from the Loo Choo Islands 
and Formosa. Published San Francisco, July 29, 1912. 
