82 COLUBEID^. 



D. Bronzy above ; the black etreak on the side of the head pro- 



longed as a broad baud along each side of the anterior part 

 of the body ; belly pale olive, immaculate. (Z>. hatowensis, 

 Macleay.) 

 a-h. S (V. 189 ; C. 144) N.W. New Guinea. M. A. Linden [C.]. 

 & ? (V. 190 ; C. 137). 



E. Bronzy or olive above, the scales usually black-edged; the 

 black streak on the side of the head not prolonged on the 

 body, or but feebly marked; belly yellowish or pale olive, 

 immaculate. (Z). salomonis, Gthr.) 



a. 9 (V. 211; C.?). Timor Laut. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



[G.]. 



/;. c? (V. 201 ; G. ?). Kei Ids. Gapt. Langen [P.]. 



c-e, f. S (V. 202. 197; Duke of York Id. Rev. G. Brown [G.]. 

 C. 148, ?) & $ (V. 207, 

 192 ; G. 151, 148). 



(J, h. S fV. 193, 194 ; Solomon Ids. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 

 G. ?, 148). (Types of D. salomonis.) 



z. Yg. (V. 180; C. 126). Alu, Shortland Ids., "G. M.Woodford, Esq. 



Solomon Ids. [C.]. 



k. $ (V. 200; G.?). San Ghristoval, Solo- H. B. Guppy, Esq. 



moulds. [P.]. 



I, m. 2 (V. 202 ; G. ?) & Santa Anna Id., Solo- H. B. Guppy, Esq. 

 yg. (V. 203 ; G. 143). mon Ids. [P.]. 



r. Olive-green to bright green above, uniform bright greenish 

 yellow beneath ; black streak on the side of the head well- 

 marked but not continued on the body. 

 a-e. 2 (V. 180, 182, 188, Rubiana, New Georgia, G. M.Woodford, Esq. 

 186,187; G. 137, 126, Solomon Ids. [G.]. 



136, 131, 137). 



G. Black above, dark olive-grey or blackish beneath. 



a-b. 2 (V. 191, 190 ; Rossel Id., Louisiade B. H. Thomson, Esq. 



G. 12-5, ?). Archipelago. [P.]. 



c. S (V. 183; G. 136). Normanby, Louisiade B. H. Thomson, Esq. 



Archipelago. [P.]. 



<Z. 2 (V. 179 ; C. 126). Guadalcanar, Solomon G.M.Woodford, Esq. 



Ids. [C.]. 



4. Dendropliis punctulatus. 



Leptophis punctulatus, Gray, in Kint/'s Voy. Austral, ii. p. 432 



(1827). 

 Dendrophis (Ahaetula) olivacea, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 54 (1842). 



(Ahfetula) fusca. Gray, I. c. 



prasinus, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 181, and U.S. 



Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 131, pi. xii. figs. 7 10 (1858). 

 puuctulata, Gimth. Cat. p. 149 (1858) ; Peters ^ Doria, Ann. 



Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 390. 

 fuscus, Jan, Elenco, p. 86 (1863), and Icon. Gen. 32, pi. iii. 



fig. 1 (1869). 

 punctiUata, Krefft, Snakes of Austral, p. 23, pis. iv. & v. fig. 6 



(1869). 



