COPHIAS WAGLERI. 43 



NOTE X. 

 ON COPHIAS WAGLERI, BOIE 



AND 



COLUBER SÜMATRANUS, RAEELES. 



BY 



Dr. Th. W. van LIDTH de JEÜDE. 



(Plate 2, fig. 6). 



Günther gives in his » Reptiles of India" the following 

 synoDymy of Trimeresurus Wagleri: 



Trigonocephalus Wagleri, Schlegel , Phys. Serp. II. p. 542. 



Trimesurus macidatus , Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 48, and Viper. 

 Snakes, p. 8. — (This 7V. maculatus is composed of young 

 specimens of Tr. Wagleri , Schleg. , and of Tr. formosus , 

 Gray; I consider the latter as a Borueau variety of Tr. 

 Wagleri, and different from the Tr. formosus of Muller 

 and Schlegel). 



Trigonocephalus sumatranus , Cantor, Mai. Rept. p. 121 

 — (not Coluber sumatranus , Raffles , a snake said to have 

 184 ventral shields). 



Trimesurus sumatranus, Gray, Viper. Snakes, p. 10. 



Trimesurus suhannulatus, Gray , Viper. Snakes, p. 9 ; Mot- 

 ley & Dillwyn, Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 44 (var.). 



Trimesurus formosus, Gray, Viper. Snakes, p. 10. 



To this list of synonymes I may add : 



Tropidolaemus Schlegeli, Bleeker (as already suggested by 

 Günther, who mentions in a note , that the British Museum 

 received from Dr. Bleeker's collection a Tr. Wagleri of a 



Notes from the Leyden ]Museu.iii , Vol. "VIXI. 



