FORMOSAN SNAKES. 



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Continued from last page. 



Collection. 



No 



Locality. 



Date. 



( '( Elector. 



Scale rows. 



Ventrals. 



Anal. 



■r 

 Cj 



3 



rl 

 Ö 

 •D 

 3 



cn 



Oculars. 



Temporals. 



él 



S. j 



3 — 1 



i/â 



'S 1-1 



Langth 

 of tail. 



Kormosan 



Mus. 

 Medical 

 School. 



33 

 9 



Ta ich u 



Taikokan, 

 Tûen 



Oct. 24, 

 190S 



Nov. 13, 

 1907 



Kikuchi. 



Governor 

 Oshima 



15 

 '5 



,65 

 162 



2 



2 



92 

 61 



1,2 



',2 



I 4 2 

 1 + 2 



8 

 8 



ni. ni. 



35° 

 973 



m. m. 

 90 



200 





10 



Shinko 



»9"4 





15 



162 



2 



89 



1,2 



1+2 



8 



1057 



270 



17. Liopeltis kawakamii n. s.p. 



Rostral much broader than high, just visible from above ; internasal 

 quadrangular, nearly as long as broad and very much smaller than 

 prefrontal which is in contact with narrow supraocular ; frontal as long 

 as its distance from tip of snout and longer than interparietal 

 suture, broader in front than behind, its posterior portion ending in an 

 acute angle ; parietal one-third longer than distance of frontal from 

 tip of snout ; nostril large, vertically elliptic, between two nasals, of 

 which the posterior is much larger than the anterior ; lorcal longer 

 than high ; one preocular, not in contact with frontal ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1+2; supralabials 8, the fourth and fifth entering the eye, 

 the sixth in contact with lateral angle of parietal ; five lower labials 

 in contact with superior chin-shields which are as long as the posterior ; 

 19 rows of smooth scales without pore; ventrals 201, sharply angulated 

 laterally ; anal divided ; 64 pairs of subcaudals. 



Colour (in alkohol) pinkish brown, with 12 brown and black-edged 

 cross-bars on body and 2 such on tail ; each bar about four scales 

 wide ; a longitudinal brown stripe runs along both sides of vertebra] 

 line, interrupted anteriorly ; top of head of the ground coiour ; a 

 dark brown stripe from eye obliquely backward across upper temporal, 

 continuous with the first cross-bar of body ; a straight stripe of same 

 colour from tip of snout across the median line of head and ending 

 at the posterior border of parietals. 



