21,3 Taylor: Herpetological Fauna, II 291 
also different. The tail length of this species is contained in 
the body length an average of six and six-tenths times. 
SNAKES 
Natrix barbouri sp. nov. 
Tropidonotus crebripunctatus BOULENGER (non Wiegmann), Cat. 
Snakes Brit. Mus. 1 (1893) 262. 
Natrix crebripunctata TAytor, Snakes of the Philippine Islands 
(1922) 91. 
Type.—No. 939, E. H. Taylor collection; collected at Balbalan, 
Kalinga, Luzon, April 26, 1920, by E. H. Taylor. 
Description of type——(Adult male.) Rostral much broader 
than high, slightly visible above; internasals longer than broad, 
longer than prefrontals; latter broader than long, much broader 
than internasal; frontal bell-shaped, the anterior edge nearly a 
straight transverse line; length of frontal equal to or slightly 
less than supraocular, sightly longer than its distance from end 
of snout; supraoculars elongate, slender, at least two and one- 
half times as long as broad; parietals only very slightly longer 
than frontal, the width equal to three-fourths the length; nasal 
divided, anterior part lower and longer than posterior part; 
loreal nearly square, much lower than nasal; two preoculars, the 
upper broader than the lower (three on right side) ; eye large, 
its diameter equal to its distance from anterior edge of anterior 
nasal scale; four postoculars; two anterior temporals, the lower 
much the larger, touching two postoculars; three equal-sized 
posterior temporals; nine upper labials, the fourth, fifth, and 
sixth entering orbit; ten lower labials, five touching anterior 
chin shields; mental broadly triangular, much wider than deep, 
not as wide as rostral; anterior chin shields forming a suture 
their entire length, not three-fourths as long as second pair, 
which are separated their entire length; scales in 19 rows, all 
strongly keeled, with apical pits; ventrals, 169; anal, divided; 
subcaudals, 107; tail long, slender, ending in a sharp point. 
Color in life—Gray above with transverse indistinct bands 
of black, broken laterally by yellowish spots; head olive without 
markings ; neck dark without a yellow spot; upper labials yellow, 
edged with black above and a small spot on each of the first 
three labials; lower labials, chin, and throat white; a row of 
black dots on outer edge of ventrals strongly defined to tip of 
tail; outer edges of ventrals marked with gray on anterior part 
of belly; on latter half the entire belly also gray; under tail 
gray with edges of subcaudals yellowish. 
