216 COIXBEID^. 



A. Blackish brown above, anteriorlj' with yellowish transverse 

 bands ; vcntrals broadly bcrdered and spotted with black. 



rt. c7 (V. 165; C. ?). CVram. Pr. Bleaker, 



i. $, bleached (V. 162; C. 72). Cerani. Dr. Bleeker. 



{Cory2}hodon curinatus, Blkr.) 



13. Dark olive-brown above, with small black spots ; ventrals 

 mostly edged with black. •* 



c. $ (V. 142; C. 58). Cape York. 



d. d (V. 154 ; C. 72). BoL-khampton. 



e-g, h. (S (V. 149,151, 150, Port Essiugton. (Tvpes of 2". ffz/.s^Y/fe.) 



153; C. 68, 72, ?, 67). 

 i. 5 (V. 146; C. ?). N.AV. Australia. 



C. LTiiiform reddish- or olive-brown above ; ventrals usually uniform 

 yellowish. 



A-o. S (V. 150 ; C. ?), 2 Flv Biver. Bev. S. Macfarlaue 



(V. 149 ; C. ?), & v^. (V. 150, ' [C.l. 

 153, 147; C. 74,82,80). 



p. 6 (V. 144 ; C. ?). New Guinea, S. of Dr. Comrie [C.]. 



IIuou Gulf. 



«/. 5 (Y. 142; C. 71). St. Aigiian, Louis- B. H. Thomson, 



iade Archipelago. E.*q. [P.]. 



/•. $ (Y. 147; C. 6G). N.W.Australia. Sir J. Bichardson 



LP.]. 



5. Yg. (Y. 153; C. 69). N. Austraha. Dr. J. B. Elsev 



[P.]. 



12. Tropidonotus truncatus. 



Stvpoihvnchus Iruncatus, Peters, Mvn. Berl. Ac. 18G3, p. 399, a7id 

 1809, p. 445, pi. — . tig. 5. 



Apparently allied to T. picturai\fs,\i\\t snout more prominent and 

 truncate, and scales feebly keeled, smooth on the nape. Two prae- 

 and two postoculars. Scales in 15 rows, Yentrals 142-147 ; sub- 

 caudals 43. Brown or blackish above ; head rusty brown above, 

 with a white black-edged streak from below the eye to the side of 

 the neck ; some of the dorsal scales with a light edge or spot ; 

 lower surface blackish dotted with whitish, or brownish white dotted 

 Avith black. 



Total length 425 millim. ; tail 75. 



Gilolo, Ternate. 



13. Tropidonotus celehicus. 



Stvpoilivnchus celebicus, Peters v.y Doria, Ann. Mies. Genova, xiii. 

 1878, p. 386. 



Distinguished from the preceding by the less prominent snout, the 

 rostral being not so deep and more vertical, and the presence of 

 three postoculars. A'entrals 140 ; subcaudals 48. Brow^u above, 

 with two irregular cchraceous stripes ; lips and chin powdered with 



