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MASAMITSU OSHIMA 



Remark. — Specimen No. 41 of the Formosan Museum shows a 

 small additional temporal on both sides. 



22. Holarchus torquatus konishii n. subsp. 



Rostral higher than broad, projecting, turned over on top of 

 head, the portion visible from above being shorter than the distance 

 from frontal ; internasals oblique, much broader than long, suture 

 between them shorter than that between prefrontals which arc broadly 

 in contact with supraoculars ; frontal longer than broad, longer than 

 its distance from tip of snout, a little shorter than parietals which arc 

 broad and truncate behind ; nostril a quadrangular hole in the middle 

 of a single nasal ; lorcal a little higher than broad, lower edge much 

 shorter than the upper ; one preocular, not in contact with frontal ; two 

 postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2; six-supralabials, nearly all higher than 

 long, the fifth and the sixth largest, the third and the fourth entering 

 the eye ; four lower labials in contact with anterior chin-shields which 

 are much longer than the posterior; 15 rows of smooth scales; 159 

 vcntrals, with sharp lateral angles ; anal divided ; 35 pairs of subcaudals. 



Colour (in formalin) grayish brown above, with four darker, rather 

 indistinct longitudinal bands, of which the two middle are much 

 broader ; tail darker ; body with reddish brown and black-edged cross- 

 bars, nine on trunk and two on tail ; two pairs of small black spots 

 between the cross-bars in the anterior three-fourths of body ; head 

 pale above, with two dark-brown and inverted V-shaped marking 

 edged with black ; one of them with the apex on prefrontal 

 suture and passing through eye, the other with the apex in the 

 posterior parts of frontal, the opening resting behind commissure ; 

 similar but broader markings on nape ; labials and lower parts 

 whitish, the latter with an ill-defined vinaceous-cinnamon streak in 

 the middle line reaching to anal, flanked by numerous black 

 quadrangular spots ; subcaudals grayish white, each scale edged 

 with dark-green. 



