i 265 



Habitat: Ceram ; Misol ; Salawatti; New Guinea (Jobi, 

 Mafoor, Djamna, Sorong, Fak Fak, Dorei, Rubi, Mansinam, 

 Andai, Mt. Arfak, Krudu, lake Sentani, Wendesi, Humboldt 

 Bay!, near Kasawari!, Tana, Etna Bay, Utakwa river 2500 feet, 

 Lorentz river!, Sattelberg, Simpsonhafen, Stephansort, Bongu, 

 Astrolabe Bay, Haveri, Moroka 2300 feet, Bara Bara, Madew 

 on St. Joseph river, Albert Edward Range 6000 feet, Mt. 



Fig. 106. Pseudeldps mullerl (Schleg.). Nat. size. 



Victoria in Owen Stanley Range, Valise Island, Seleo Island); 

 Schouten Islands (Mysore). Ferguson, Trobiand and Woodlark 

 Islands ; St. Aignan ; Bismarck Archipelago. 



Note. Werner described a specimen from New Guinea 

 (Zool. Anz. XXVI 1903, p. 251) with 181 ventrals and 40 

 subcaudals as P. viulleri var. lineaticollis. Sides of neck with 

 two longitudinal lines; throat not black; tail with a median 

 dark line below. 



Barbour made for a very dark specimen from Djamna Island 

 a new subspecies; P. miilleri insulae. In the Leiden Museum 

 there are in the collection of snakes some specimens of this 

 dark race, showing a connection with the typical specimens 

 by one animal with an indication of a light vertebral line. 

 (See Barbour, Bull. Mus. Zool. Cambr. LI 1907/08 p. 320 

 and Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. XLIV 1912, p. 132; v. LiDTH 

 DE Jeude, Nova Guinea Zool. V 1911, p. 529). 



