320 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPAKATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



Type. — No. 7106, Mus. Comp. Zobl., one specimen from the East Indies. 



Several years ago a collection of reptiles was offered for sale which purported 

 to come from the Moluccas and was marked " Ternate or Amboina." Many of 

 the specimens undoubtedly did come from the Moluccas. The Calamaria 

 which is described above, reminds one strongly of C. occipitalis Jan, and very 

 possibly will be found locally in some one of the many small areas in Java which 

 are as yet unknown herpetologically. That we do not yet know completely the 

 calamarian fauna of Java is attested by the fact that in April, 1907, at Sindanglaia 

 in Western Java, a specimen of C. sumatrana Edeling was taken, thus adding a 

 species to the list, already a long one, of forms known to inhabit Java. 



Pseudelaps muelleri insulae, subsp. nov. 



Rostral scale visible from above. The eye is somewhat greater in diameter than 

 its distance from the mouth. The scales around the body are in 15 rows ; the 

 ventrals 146 and the subcaudals 19 pairs in number. The anal is divided. Total 

 length 400 mm.; tail 32 mm. Boulenger's (Cat. Snakes, 1896, 3, p. 317), 

 measurements of P. muelleri are as follows : " Total length 500 millim ; tail 70." 



Color. In life this is almost coal black above with rich plumbeous iridescence 

 when held in bright light. The ventral surface is, in general, dusky white. 

 Along each of the gastrosteges runs a line of dark brown spots; these spots 

 occur in a closely grouped cluster at the ends of each ventral scale. In the gular 

 region the spots fuse and grow darker in color ; the general effect is a very deep 

 brown. On the lower labials small white spots occur, irregularly scattered. In 

 alcohol, however, the black has changed to a very dark dull green and the brown 

 markings below to an olive color. 



Type. — No. 7080, Mus. Comp. Zobl., one specimen, Djamna Island, Dutch 

 Papua. T. Barbour, collector. Djamna is a small islet, situated off the Saar 

 district between Cape D'Urville and Humboldts bay. It lies a few miles south- 

 east of the Arimoa (Kumamba) group of islands. 



This form differs from Pseudelaps muelleri (Schlegel) in having a much shorter 

 tail, fewer pairs of subcaudal scales, and a distinctive coloration. 



This subspecies may be identical with " P. schlegelii (Giinther)," which seems 

 distinguishable as a race of P. muelleri (Schl.). The color of this Djamna form 

 does not, however, seem within the variation limits of any described form. 



AMPHIBIA 

 Prostherapis equatorialis, sp. nov. 



Snout depressed, projecting, rather pointed, truncate with angular canthus 

 rostralis ; loreal region slanting inward from below ; nostril very close to tip of 

 snout; interorbit very broad, slightly convex; tympanum very small but distinct, 

 about one-third the width of eye. First finger slightly shorter than second ; toes 

 free ; discs small ; subarticular and inner metatarsal tubercles indistinct ; no 



