6G. CHLOROPHIS. 91 



Total length 1050 millim. ; tail 300. 

 Philippines, Celebes. 



a. 2 (V. 167 ; C. 100). N. Mindanao. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of 2). phillppinensk.) 



b, c. ? (V. 172 ; C. ?) & Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 

 vg. (V. 182; C. 113). 



d.'2 (V. 179; C. 102). Manado. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



5. Dendrelaphis modestus. (Plate IV. fig. 4.) 



Eye as long as its distance from the nostril. Eostral broader 

 than deep, just visible from above ; iuternasals as long as the prae- 

 frontals ; frontal once and one third as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 pai'ietals ; loreal elongate ; one prae- and two postoculars ; temiiorals 

 2 + 2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye; five 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 13 rows. Yentrals 191-193 ; 

 anal divided; subcaudals 111. Olive above, scales black-edged; 

 a rather indistinct dark streak on each side of the head, passing 

 through the eye ; upper lip and lower surface of head yellow ; pale 

 green beneath, the posterior ventrals and the subcaudals margined 

 with blackish. 



Total length 1120 millim. ; tail 315. 



Tern ate. 



a-b. 2 (V. 193, 191 ; C. 114, ?). Ternate. H.M.S. ' ChaUenger.' 



66. CHLOROPHIS *. 



Philothamnus, part., Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. (1840) ; Peters, 



ReUe n. Mossamb. iii. p. 128 (18^2) ; Bocaye, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ix. 



1882, p. 1. 

 Leptopbis, part., Dum. Sf- Bihr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 528 (1854) ; Jan, 



Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 84 (l8t)3). 

 Chlorophis, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p, 52 ; Cope, Proc. Ac. 



Philud. 1860, p. 559 ; Thaib. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 49 (1863). 

 AhfetuUa, part., Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 151 (1858), and Ann. ^- Mag. 



N. H. (3) xi. 18(13, p. 283. 

 Herpetsethiops, Giinth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, p. 27. 



Fig. 8. 



Maxillary and mandible of Chlorophis natalensis. 



* A snake figured, but not described, by Jan, as from Mozambique, Dcndro- 

 phis suhcarinatus. Icon. Gen. 32, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1869), perhaps belongs to tliis 

 genus, but has feebly- keeled dorsal scales and the dentition is represented as 

 ibodont. 



