21,8 Taylor: Herpetological Fauna, II 293 
the subcaudal area. This vertebral stripe is mentioned in Bou- 
lenger’s description ** as being present. 
In comparing these specimens with Wiegmann’s description 
I find that none of the three specimens has the white nuchal 
spot (“der Nacken dunkler mit einem weissen Fleck’), which is 
invariably present in Natrix spilogaster; the two small spots on 
the parietal scales are wanting (‘“‘die beiden Punkte der Occi- 
pitalschilder, die auch bei andern Kielnatter-Arten in Jugend- 
alter vorkommen’’), and there is only a single irregular row 
of black dots on the outer edge of the ventrals instead of in- 
numerable black dots arranged in transverse rows as is true in 
Natriz spilogaster. (“Die Bauchseite ebenfalls weisslich, aber 
mit unzdhligen schwarzen Punkten bedeckt, die auf den ein- 
zelnen Bauchschildern in Querreihen zu 6-10 stehen”.) The 
ventral and subcaudal counts of Wiegmann’s specimen (148 and 
96) are well within the range for N. spilogaster, but much lower 
than in the species described, in which they are 163 to 169 for 
ventrals and 100 to 107 for subcaudals. 
The species is named for Dr. Thomas Barbour, the eminent 
herpetologist of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy at Harvard 
College, Cambridge, Mass. 
Natrix lineata (Peters). 
Tropidonotus lineatus PrTERS, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1861) 686. 
Natriz lineata TayLor, Snakes of the Philippine Islands (1922) 92. 
I collected three specimens of this snake along Tumugao River, 
Zamboanga, Mindanao, and seven specimens on Basilan, at Port 
Holland and Abung-abung. In general they differ from speci- 
mens collected in Agusan, Mindanao, in color and markings. 
Most of the Agusan specimens are dull black above with no 
markings distinguishable save in very young specimens. In all 
ten specimens the color is light olive above, with a regular net- 
work of black markings and an indistinct series of yellowish 
- dots on the sides. The ventrals and subcaudals have a large 
dusky area near the middle. The head is deep brown. The 
strongly defined yellow labial line is present in all the speci- 
mens. All of them show a dark nuchal band with a light, ir- 
regular, nuchal spot. 
No. 14038, the largest specimen collected, was found at night 
near an old unused well where Polypedates pardalis were breed- 
ing. In life the colors were as follows: Top of head and anterior 
part of body reddish brown, gradually becoming olive on the 
# Loc. cit. 
