204 The Philippine Journal of Science 
Remarks.—This single specimen was taken on Jolo Island, 
under a rock in a small dry brook. I do not believe an apology 
is necessary for adding this species to the already very large 
assemblage of species of Calamaria. The very low ventral count 
and the absence of marking easily differentiate it from other 
Philippine species of the genus. The species seems to be nearer 
Calamaria prakkii Lidth de Jeude, from which it differs in color, 
the very much shorter tail, and the very much smaller number of 
subeaudals. 
Calamaria grayi Giinther. 
Calamaria grayi GUNTHER Cat. Col. Snakes (1858) 6; TAYLOR, 
Snakes of the Philippine Islands (1922) 184. 
A specimen of this rare species (No. 1034, E. H. Taylor collec- 
tion) was taken at Zamboanga, near Pasananka, in a small 
stream that enters Tumugao River above the waterworks’ intake. 
It was found under a rock which was at the water’s edge. The 
species varies from Boulenger’s description, in that the head 
is flattened and distinct from the neck, and the frontal is twice 
the width of the supraoculars. 
Color in life-—Head dirty white to yellow-cream oite a brown 
band between the eyes and involving the eye; grayish markings 
on the prefrontals and the rostral; the anterior part of the body 
has grayish rings, one scale wide dorsally and covering three or 
four ventrals below; toward the posterior part of the body the 
light rings are broken, and a series of gray spots follows the 
median line; below, the posterior part of the body is like the 
anterior. Ventrals, 191; subcaudals, 18; anal single. 
Measurements of Calamaria grayi Giinther. 
mm, 
Total length 195 
Snout to vent 183 
Tail 12 
Width of head 5 
Width of neck 4 
Remarks.—In my monograph on Philippine snakes ° I state 
that only the types have been collected. This statement is 
doubtless erroneous, since Steindachner * records Calamaria phil- 
ippinica, which is regarded as a synonym of this species. 
* Snakes of the Philippine Islands, Bureau of Science publication 16 
(1922) 312. 
™Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 17 (1867) 13, figs. 4-6, a paper which I 
have not seen. 
