2f}2 COLTJBRID^. 



of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal deeper than Ion?: ? 

 one or two pne- and three postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2; eight 

 njjper lahials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter 

 than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows, all strongly keeled. Yen- 

 trals 152-157; anal divided; subcaudals 76-91. Dark olive- 

 brown above, with a yellowish vertebral stripe ; a white lateral 

 stripe along the outer row of scales, expanding, club-shaped on the 

 temple ; forehead yellowish brown, with blackish vermiculations ; a 

 black cross bar between the eyes ; labials white, with black sutures ; 

 belly white, with three black longitudinal bands, the middle one 

 broadest, or black posteriorly, with two scries of white s])ots ; lower 

 surface of tail white in the middle, black on the sides ; these markings 

 becoming indistinct in full-grown specimens. 



Totiil length 400 millim.)' tail 115. 



Philippine Islands. 



fl. $ (V. 152 ; C. 76J. Philippines. 11. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type.) 

 b-e. 6 (V. 156, 157, 155 ; Pasananca. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



C. 91, 89, 85) & 5 (V. 



15(5; C.?j. 



69. Tropidonotus crebripunctatns. 



Tropidonotus crebripunctatus, Wm/m. N.Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. xvii. 

 i. 1835, p. 250. 



Head short, very distinct from neck. Ej-e very large. Rostral 

 broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals as long as 

 broad, as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal once and three fifths as 

 long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 

 as long as the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; two praj- and three 

 postoculars; temporals 2 + 3 ; eight to ten upper labials (the sj>e- 

 cimen in the collection has eight on one side, ten on the other), 

 fourth and fifth, fifth or sixth, or sixth and seventh entering the eye ; 

 four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, all strongly 

 keeled. Ventrals 148-1 6'J; anal divided; subcaudals 96-101. 

 (31ive above, vertebral line lighter and crossed by narrow black 

 bars ; upper lip yellowish, the shields black-edged above ; bellv 

 Avhitish, with a black dot at the outer end of each shield ; posterior 

 ventrals brown on the sides ; subcaudals entirely brown. 



Total length 680 millim. ; tail 230. 



Philippine Islands. 



a. $ (V. 106 ; C. 101). Philippine Islands. II. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



70. Tropidonotus lineatus. 



Tropidonotus lineatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1861, p. 680. 



Apparently very closely allied to the preceding, but with a single 

 anterior temporal and fewer ventrals (142j and subcaudals {^'o). 

 Samar Island, Philippines. 



