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fauna, however, he credits the species to Guadalcanar. A single 

 specimen in Dr. Mann's collection agrees so well with the de- 

 scription that there can be little question of its identity with 

 melanurus, yet it came from Fulakora on Ysabel Island. Gua- 

 dalcanar is some distance away, and is separated from Ysabel 

 by Tulagi and the Florida Group, — among many other lesser 

 islets, — and Florida Island, wliich thus divides the range of 

 melanurus, is the type locahty of D. elapoides Boulenger. These 

 most curious and unusual circumstances require further eluci- 

 dation. 



Denisonia woodfordi Boulenger 



Hoplocephalus woodfordi Boulenger, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 89; P. Z. S., 1890, 



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

 Denisonia woodfordi Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 3, 1896, p. 346. 



One adult and one young from Rubiana Lagoon, New Georgia 

 Island. The young is typical, but the adult lacks the cross 

 bands figured by Boulenger (I. c.) ; nevertheless it has seventeen 

 rows of scales and proportions also agreeing perfectly, so that 

 except for coloration it is really a counterpart of the type. 

 Another fine typical adult affords a new locality record for 

 Rendora Island, which is southeast of New Georgia and hitherto 

 has been little known. 



Laticauda colubrina (Schneider) 



Hydrus colubrimis Schneider, Hist. Amph., I, 1799, p. 238. 

 Laticauda colubrina Stejneger, Herpetology of Japan, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 58, 1907, p. 406. 



Two adult specimens from Rubiana, New Georgia Island, 

 give us a definite record from a region whence exact data for 

 this species are rare. 



