66. CHLOROPHIS. 91 
Total length 1050 millim.; tail 300. 
Philippines, Celebes. 
a. 9 (V. 167; C. 100). N. Mindanao. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 
(Type of D. philippinensis.) 
been fF (Ve La Cer) & Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 
yg. (V. 182; C. 113). 
d. 9 (V. 179; C. 102). Manado. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 
5. Dendrelaphis modestus. (Prare IV. fig. 4.) 
Eye as long as its distance from the nostril. Rostral broader 
than deep, just visible from above ; internasals as long as the pre- 
frontals ; frontal once and one third as long as broad, as long as its 
distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, shorter than the 
parietals ; loreal elongate ; one pre-and two postoculars ; temporals 
2+2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye; five 
lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 
shorter than the posterior. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 191-193 ; 
anal divided; subcaudals 114. Olive above, scales black-edged ; 
a rather indistinct dark streak on each side of the head, passing 
through the eye; upper lip and lower surface of head yellow; pale 
green beneath, the posterior ventrals and the subcaudals margined 
with blackish. 
Total length 1120 millim. ; tail 315. 
Ternate. 
a-b. 2 (V. 193, 191; C. 114, ?). Ternate. H.M.S. ‘Challenger.’ 
66. CHLOROPHIS *. 
Philothamnus, part., Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. (1840) ; Peter's, 
Reise n. Mossamb, iii. p. 128 (1882); Bocage, Jorn. Se. Lish. ix. 
1882, p. 1. 
Leptophis, part., Dum. §& Bibr. Erp. Gén. vii. p. 528 (1854) ; Jan, 
Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 84 (1863). 
Chlorophis, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 52; Cope, Proc. Ac. 
Philad, 1860, p.559; Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 49 (1868). 
Aheetulla, part., Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 151 (1858), and Ann. § Mag. 
N. H, (3) xi. 1865, p. 283. 
Herpetzthiops, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) xviii. 1866, p. 27, 
Fig. 8. 
Maxillary and mandible of Chlorophis natalensis. 
* A snake figured, but not described, by Jan, as from Mozambique, Dendro- 
phis subcarinatus, Icon. Gén. 32, pl. ii. fig. 2 (1869), perhaps belongs to this 
genus, but has feebly-keeled dorsal scales and the dentition is represented as 
isodont. 
