48 COPHIAS WAGLERI. 



The same is the case with a snake from Dr. Bleeker's 

 colleetioa under the name of Tropidolaemus Schlegeli. The 

 general color is green with small whitish spots on the 

 sides of the body, and on the root of the tail. The ven- 

 tralia and the labialia are of a yellowish-green color, the 

 end of the tail is red. The streak on the sides of the head 

 is brownish and broader than in the former specimen. 



This snake has a length of 63 cm., and the greatest 

 number of scales in a transverse series is 24. 



Another snake from Dr. ^^leeker's collection under the 

 name of Tropidolaemus fonnosus , but in a very bad con- 

 dition , proves by inspection to be also a variety of B. 

 Wogieri. The general color is a pale bluish-green with 

 traces of cross-bands. Probably these cross-bands were of 

 a green color. The end of the tail is reddish. No traces 

 of white spots are to be seen. This specimen, 59 cm. 

 long , shows no difference with regard to the scales of the 

 body and the head with the typical specimen of ^. Wagleri 

 and as to the coloration may belong to the blue variety 

 of Padang now to be described. 



This variety from Padang, a snake of 84 cm. with 139 

 ventralia , 4G anal-shields and 25 rows of scales, differs in 

 coloration from all the specimens till now described. The 

 color is bluish-green and yellow, instead of a yellow and 

 black color as in the adult specimen from Sumatra. The 

 scales on the anterior part of the head are bluish-green 

 with a yellow keel , on the hinder part of the head bluish- 

 green with a yellow spot. The labialia are yellow with a 

 bluish-green margin. These bluish-green and yellow colors 

 are never distinctly limited but always flow together. The 

 yellow spots are never round but always lozenge-shaped. 

 The line or streak on the sides of the head is of a bluish 

 color and only visible behind the eye. The cross-bands, at 

 a distance of 2 or 3 scales from each other, are blue 

 and reach the ventralia where they form oblong dark blue 

 laterally situated spots. The black line on the ventralia of 

 the typical specimens is here represented by a blue colored 



S^'otes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. VIII. 



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