1903. ] SNAKES OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 93 
S. China, Hainan, Hongkong.—I saw one specimen in the City 
Hall Museum, and obtained two myself on the mainland opposite 
Hongkong. One was caught in grass on the hillside and suffered 
itself to be handled without retaliation. The other was caught on 
a shrub poised over a flower. Frontal: length greater than dis- 
tance to end of snout in three specimens. Labials: six with the 
third and fourth touching the eye on one side, seven with the 
fourth and fifth touching the eye on the other side in one speci- 
men. Nasals semidivided on both sides in one specimen. 
52. SImMores CHINENSIS. China, Hainan.—Rostral: visible 
portion seen from above equals distance to frontal in two 
specimens. Labials seven, with the fourth only touching the eye 
on both sides in one specimen. Subcaudals 50 in one and 51 in 
another'specimen. I saw two specimens in the Siccawei Museum, 
and obtained one myself from Kiangyin on the southern bank of 
the Yangtse River, to the north- meu of Shanghai. 
53, Sumores yartuantr. China (Sauvage). 
54, ABLABES MAJOR. China, Hongkong (Giinth., Hallow., City 
Hall Mus.), Formosa, Climeen Archipelago. — Evidently fairly 
common in the Yangtse Valley. I saw one specimen of this snake, 
belonging to Mr. Styan, in Shanghai, and many others in the 
Siccaw ei Collection. There are three in the City Hall Museum, 
two of which are from Formosa, the other of uncertain resi inet 
I saw one specimen in Mr, Armstrong’s collection in Hongkong 
obtained from that island, where, as he told me, it is not 
uncommon. Jabials: in one specimen seven, with the third 
and fourth touching the eye on one side, Subcaudals 89 in one 
specimen, and 90 in two others. 
ABLABES DOoRI®. Kachin Hills, Assam, China.—I saw one 
eT specimen 8 or 9 inches long in the Siccawei Collection. 
Ventrals 1602 Subcaudals 852 It agrees in every particular 
with Mr. Boulenger’s description. This species has not been 
previously recorded from China. 
56, CALAMARIA PAVIMENTATA. Burma, Siam, Cochin China, 
Malay Peninsula, Java, 8. China (J/dll.), Riu Kiu Archipelago 
(Steyneger *). 
57, CALAMARIA BEREZOWSKI. §, China (Giinth.’). 
58. CALAMARIA SEPTENTRIONALIS. China, Chusan Archipelago, 
Hongkong.—I saw two specimens in the Siccawei Collection, both 
quite typical. 
59, SPANIOPHOLIS SOULIEI Yunnan (de Scabra “) 
1 Stejneger (Proc. Biol. Soe. Wash. xiv. p. 191) describes a snake as new to science 
under the name of Calamaria pfefferi, which, in my opinion, is a specimen of 
C. pavimentata. 
= Ann Ac. St. Pétersb. 1896, p. 205, pl. i. fig. a. 
3 Bull. Mus. N. H. Paris, ili. 1897, p. 216. 
