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Subfamily HYDRINAE. 



Genus LATICAUDA Laurenti. 



8. Laticauda laticaudata (Linnaeus). 



1758. Coluber laticaudatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10 eel, I, p. 222 (Part : the 

 Indies). 



Not seen. Dr. Stejneger has recorded tlie present species from Ishigaki- 

 jima and Formosa. 



9. Laticauda colubrina (Linnaeus). 



Plate VI, fig. 2. 



1758. Coluber laticaudatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. 10 ed., I, p. 22 (part). 

 1799. Hydrus colubrinus Schneider, Hist. Amph , I. p. 288. 



Three specimens from Kwashoto, Formosa. 



10. Laticauda semifasciata (Reinwardt). 



Plate VII, fig. 4. 



1837. Platurus semifasciatus Reinwardt, in Schlegel, Phys. Serp., II, p. 516 

 (Moluccas). 



One specimen from Kwashoto, Formosa ; one specimen from Okinawa- 



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shima ; one specimen from Amami-Oshima. 



Genus EMYDOCEPHALUS Krefft. 

 11, Emydocephalus ijimae Stejneger. 



Plate VI, fig. 1. 



1898. Emydoceyhalus ijimae Stejneger, Journ. Coll. Sci., Tokyo, XIII, Pt. 3, p. 

 223 (Riu Kiu Sea). 



Two specimens from Kwashoto, Formosa. 



Genus DISTEIRA Lacepkle. 

 12. Disteira melanocephala (Gray). 



Plate VIII, fig. 1. 

 1849. Hydrophis sublaevis, var. melanocephala Gray, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus , p. 

 53 (part : Indian Ocean). 



