SNAKES. b 



d. Young. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



€. Adult. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 (Belly uniform whitish, neck with a black collar; some ob- 

 solete dorsal spots behind.) 



5. Calamaria lumbricoidea. 



Calamaria lumbricoidea, Boie, Isis, 1827, p- 540; Wagl. Syst. 

 p. 192 ; Schleg. Ess. pi. 1. f. 14-16 ; Cantor, Catal. p. (il ; Dum. 

 8f Bibr. p. 89. Calamaria virgulata (young), Boie, I. c. (not 

 Gervais). 



Upper labials five ; first pair of lower labials not forming a 

 suture ; no azygos scale between the chin-shields ; rostral just 

 reaching the surface of head. Body cylindric, much elongated. 

 Above brownish, beneath white, with large black square spots. 



a. Adult. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



b. Adult. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



c. Half-grown : very bad state. Asia. 



6. Calamaria schlegelii. 



Calamaria schlegelii, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 81. 



Scales in thirteen rows ; upper labials five ; first pair of lower 

 labials not forming a suture ; an azygos scale between the chin- 

 shields. Body and tail of moderate length. Reddish brown ; 

 head uniform yellow; belly yellowish, with .black band-like 

 spots. 



a. Adult. Borneo. Presented by Sir J. Brooke. 



b. Half-grown. Borneo. From Mr. Wallace's Collection. 



The characters of our diagnosis are somewhat different from the 

 description given by Dumeril and Bibron, and founded upon a 

 single specimen. The scales of the medial dorsal row are rather 

 larger than the other ones. Native country the same. 



7. Calamaria temminckii. 



Calamaria temminckii, Dum. ^ Bibr, p. 87. 



Upper labials five ; first pair of lower labials not forming a 

 suture ; no azygos scale between the chin-shields ; rostral pro- 

 duced backwards between the frontals, pointed behind. Body 

 cylindric, elongate. Above brown ; beneath whitish, with black 

 cross bands. 



a. Adult. Borneo. From Mr. Wallace's Collection. 



