110 BAKBOUR — SOLOMON ISLAND REPTILES [^V^i^vil 



Dendrophis calligaster Guenther 



Dendrophis calligaster Guenther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), 20, 1867, 



p. 53. 

 Dendrophis calligaster Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 2, 1894, p. 80. 



The type came from Cape York, Australia, where the snake 

 is very rare. The Museum of Comparative Zoology has it from 

 Rockhampton, Queensland, from Murray Island in Torres 

 Straits, and from New Britain. Miss Proctor writes me that 

 the British Museum has received it only once from Australia 

 (Cooktown) since the type was discovered. In the Solomons it 

 is more common, and Dr. Mann preserved two adults from 

 Malaita; one adult and one young from Rubiana, New Georgia; 

 one adult from Fulakora, Ysabel, and one from Bio, a small 

 island near Ugi. 



Boiga irregularis (Bechstein) 



Coluber irregularis Bechstein, Ueber Lac^pede, 4, 1802, p. 239, pi. 37, 



fig. 1. 

 Dipsadomorphus irregularis Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 3, 1896, 



p. 75. 



While this snake was known to Boulenger (P. Z. S., 1887, 

 p, 90) from most of the Solomons, except the group about San 

 Cristobal, nevertheless Mann's locahties are all new. He has 

 two from Fulakora, Ysabel; three from Auki, Malaita, and one 

 from Ugi. 



Denisonia melanura Boulenger 



Hoplocephalus melanurus Boulenger, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 88; P. Z. S., 1890, 



p. 30, pi. 2, fig. 1. 

 Denisonia melanura Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 3, 1896, p. 345. 



Boulenger gave no type locaHty for this species when he 

 described it; in his table of distribution or summary of the 



