The specimen was collected from Mt. Ulu Kali located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.
Locality: The specimen was found in the standing water on the darked damp region at the foot of Mt. Ulu Kali.
Physical characteristic: The back is brown; black transverse band on the fore-and hind-limbs in light; the web incomplete in development, not reaching the disk of the 2nd and 3rd toes on their inner side; throat marbled.
The dorsal skin smooth; dorsal-lateral fold present; the 1st finger a little longer than the second: foot longer than tibia; vomerine teeth occur.

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A morphological study on the monstered tail of two species of Lacertilia was done with X-ray photograph and Mall's alizalin red-S staining method. One of them, Gekko japonicus, has a forked tail, and the other one, Takydromus tachydromoides, has a triple tail. The former's regenerated tail develops at the level of the left transverse process of the 50th vertebra. It shows normal feature in structure. The latter's primary regenerated tail develops at the caudal part of the 33rd vertebra and the secondary regenerated tail develops at the middle part of the primary regenerated tail. It seems to be constituted with cartilage or chondrin. These specimen were collected in Aichi Prefecture.

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Hegura Island (or Hegurajima) is a small island (about 1km²) located in the Japan Sea, at about 50km from Wajima City of Noto Peninsula. In the summer of 1968, the author made a herpetological survey on the island and confirmed the occurrence of only one species, Natrix vibakari (Boie).
The snake is rather commonly found in the grass land area. It seems that the feeding habit and the habitat of the snakes in the island somewhat differ from those of them in the mainland of Japan.

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The new observations on the two kinds of snakes, Dinodon septentrionalis multifasciatus and Calliophis macclellandii iwasakii are presented in this paper.
1. I concluded that the classification of Dinodon septentrionalis multifasciatus based on the number of supralabials adjacent to eyes is not correct.
In 1931, Dr. M. Maki named subspecies Dinodon septentrionalis multifasciatus. He described the subspecies has four supralabials adjacent to eyes. The type specimen, which he examined, was collected from Ishigaki Island. In my examination, the specimen collected from Iriomote Island has only three supralabials adjacent to eyes. It is just the same to Dinodon septentrionalis ruhstrati inhabiting in Formosa.
2. The size of Calliophis macclellandii iwasakii must be corrected to 756mm in total length, and 77mm in tail length. Although literature report the total length of the species is 365mm, and tail length is 35mm, my examination indicates the total length is 756mm, and tail length is 77mm.
3. Poisonous character of Calliophis macclellandii iwasakii is not on record. According to my examination using mice, the species produce strong neurotoxin.

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