BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 24. AFD. IV. N:o6. ll 
according to BouLENGER, with two of the specimens in the 
British Museum and CorPrE's Tantilla pallida, which CoPpE in 
Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. XXIV, 1887, p. 56 describes with the 
symphysial shield quite similarly situated as in this speci- 
men, is also considered by BouLENnGER to be a Hom. melano- 
cephalum. 
I therefore believe that this difference does not prevent 
our identifying LINNAEUS'S specimen with this snake, as it 
in other respects completely corresponds with the description. 
Hom. melanocephalum : Total length 210 mm. Tail 55 mm. Sq. 15. V. 142. C. 62. 
Polyod. subpunctatus: > >. 360 TRO DE Rn PSTN SA LATA rg ÖL 
Coluber Cobella. 
Described by LINNZUS in Åmoen. Acad. Tom I, N:o V, p. 117, N:o 4, 
N:o XI, p. 302, N:o 28, and N:o XVI, p. 496, N:o 14, Mus. Ad. Frid. LA: 
Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 218, Ed. XII, p. 378. 
Syn. in Bour. Cat. Sn. II, p. 166, Rhadinexa cobella (L.) BouL. 
There is at present no specimen of this snake in the 
Royal Museum marked with the Drottningh. label. Accord- 
ing to QUuENSEL there were, however, in 1802 three specimens 
from Mus. Drottningh., and it is not probable that all these 
have been lost. 
On closer studying of LInnavs's description of Col. Co- 
bella in Mus. Ad. Frid., we find that his type-specimen pro- 
bably was not a Rhadinea cobella (L.) Bouvr. On the ground 
of the number of the shields and the colour I think that he 
had as type a specimen of Liophis regine (L.) Dum. & BIBR. 
In the museum there are also two specimens of this snake 
from an earlier period, called Coluber cobella, which very 
much agree with the Linnean description of this later one. 
Therefore, it is possible that these specimens are the types 
of LINNAZuv$s's Col. Cobella in Mus. Ad. Frid. LöNnNBERG,! 
however, has shown that LInnzus in Amoen. Acad. with 
Col. Cobella meant the snake which is now called Rhadinzea 
cobella and LINnNZUS's mistake in Mus. Ad. Frid. does not 
cause a change of the usual names. 
! >Linnean Type-Specimens of Birds, Reptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes 
in the Zoological Mus. of the R. University in Upsala revised by Dr. Enar 
LÖNNBERG> in Bihang till K. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Band 22, Afd. IV, N:o 1. 
Stockh. 1896. , 
