BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND. 24. AFD. IV. N:0 6. 23 
Coluber pullatus. 
Described by LIinnzaus in Amoen. Acad. Tom 1, N:o XI, p. 300, N:o 25, 
Mus. Ad. Frid. 1, p. 35, tab. 20, fig. 3, Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 225, Ed. XII, 
p. 388. 
Syn. in Bour. Cat. Sn. II, p. 23, Spilotes pullatus (L.) WAGL. 
(For other synonyms see BouL. loc. cit.) 
One specimen from Mus. Drottn. 
Total length 580 mm. Tail 140 mm. Sq. 16. V. 208. C. 109. 
As shown above, the number of the shields differs slightly 
from that stated by LIiNN=us (220 + 102). Itis possible, how- 
ever, that in the time of LINNAUS there might have been 
another specimen, now lost, with the number of shields he 
gives; but there is no need for this way of explaining LIN- 
NAEvs's slightly different number of shields, as we find that 
he was not always quite exact, in counting the shields. 
According to QuENSEL there was in 1802 only one specimen 
in the R. Museum. 
This specimen, as also others in the museum, differs from 
the description in BouLENGER'S catalogue in the number of the 
upper labials. BouLENGER states these at 6 or 7, the third 
and the fourth entering the eye. In this specimen and in 
some others there are 8, the fourth and fifth entering the 
eye, in another 9, the fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the 
eye. On NcCHLEGEL's! figure there are also 8 upper labials, 
the fourth and fifth entering the eye. 
Coluber filiformis. 
Described by Linnzaus in Mus. Ad. Frid. I, p. 36, tab. 17, fig. 2 
Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 225, Ed. XII, p. 388. 
This Linnean type has not been identified by the authors. 
One specimen from Mus. Ad. Frid. is preserved in the Royal 
Museum, which evidently was the type for LInnauvs's descrip- 
bion. of Col. filiformis in Mus. Ad. FErid. It is a young 
Leptophis liocercus (WIED.) or Leptophis ahetulla (L.). 
The specimen is of a pale brown colour with light col- 
oured lips and a trace of the dark streak through the eye. 
Total length 300 mm. Tail/ll5H5 mm. i 5q. 150 Vov165:, 02158. 
1 Essai sur la Physionomie des Serpens. Amsterdam 1837, Planche 6, 
fig. 2 
