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1842. Trvmesurus aldoladrw Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 48 (type locality. China'; 



types in British Museum, Reeves, collector). 

 1870. Trimeresurus mutaMlu Stoliczka, Journ. Asiat. Soe. Bengal, vol. 39, pt. 



2, p. 219, pi. 12, figs. 5-5e (type locality, Andaman and Nicobar Islands). 

 1922. Laohesis gramlneus alholabris Mell, Arch. Naturg., vol. 88, sec. A. pt. 10, 



p. 126 (Southern Kwantung). 

 1924. Laohesis fasciatus Werner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. Nat. KL, 



sec. 1, vol. 133, 1924, p. 47 (Annam, Hainan) (not of Boulenger). 



A typical specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 6T601) of the barred form 

 from Kuling, Fukien, was collected by Sowerby (No. 565). The 

 first supralabial is fused with the nasal; the internasals are rather 

 large but separated from each other by a very small scale. The 

 postgenials are regular and large, forming a symmetrical series of 

 five pairs. In these characters it agrees with southern specimens of 

 the species and differs from those of northern localities and higher 

 altitudes. The type of one of the names applicable to the latter 

 subspecies is also from the Province of Fukien, having been collected 

 at Shaowu, scarcely more than 140 miles away to the northwest, 

 but presumably at a much greater altitude. 



TRIMERESURUS GRAMINEUS STEJNEGERI (Schmidt) 



1853. Trimesurus elegans Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, voU 12, p. 391 

 (type locality, Sikkim; type in British Museum; Hooker, collector); 

 (not CraspedocepJialus elegans Gray. 1849=Tri'meresurus elegans 

 Gray). 



1864. Trimeresurus gramineus Guenther, Kept. Brit. India, p. 385 (part : 

 Khasya, Ladak[?], Sikkim, Ningpo ; not of Shaw) — Stoliczka, Journ. 

 Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 39, pt. 2, 1870, p. 216 (Khasi Hills and Assam.) — 

 Anderson, Zool. Res. Exped. West Yunnan, 1879, p. 828 (Ponsee, 

 Yunnan).— Boettger, Offenbach Ver. Naturk., 24r-25 Ber., 1885, p. 157 

 Ningpo) ; Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 1888, Abh. p. 188 (South 

 Formosa). — SiEjNEGiai, Herp. Japan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 58, 1907. 

 p. 480, figs. 370-372 (Formosa) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, 1910, p. 

 113 (Formosa) ; vol. 66, art. 25, 1925, p. 101, (Moh-Kan-Shan, 

 Chekiang). — Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 4, 1909, p. 

 76 (Bankoro, Formosa). — O shim a, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 7, pt. 3, 

 March, 1910^ p. 207 (Formosa) ; Ann. Rep. Inst. Sci. Formosa, vol. 8, 

 No. 2, 1920, p. 11, pi. 16. — Stanley, Journ. N. China Asiat. Soc, vol. 45, 

 1914, p. 31 (part: Chekiang).— Takahashi Japanese Ven. Snakes, 

 1923, pi. 3 (Formosa). — LacJiesis gramineus Boulenger. Cat. Snakes 

 Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1896, p. 554 (part: Ladak, Darjeeling, Sikkim, 

 Khasi Hills, Ningpo, Formosa). — Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, 

 p. 99 (part: Formosa). — Vogt, Arch. Naturg., vol. 88, 1922, sec. A, pt. 

 10, p. 143 (part: [Northern] Kwangtung). — Werner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien. Math. Nat. KL, sec. 1, vol. 133, 1924, p. 48, Formosa.— 

 Lachesis graminea Boettger, Kat. Schlang. Mus. Senckenberg., 1898, 

 p. 139 (part: South Formosa). — Lachesis (Trimeresurus) gramineus 

 Steidnacher, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wein, Math. Nat. Kl., vol. 90, 

 1914, p. 357 (Formosa). 



* Macao or Canton, according to Mell, Arch. Naturg., vol. 88, 1922, sec. A, pt. 10, p. 127. 



