BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 24. AFD. IV. N:0 6. 3l 
the sanguineous colour is very slightly visible and only on 
the throat. In Syst. Nat. LInnavs says that the snake is 
»niger jugulo sanguinolento» and does not speak about the 
white head. Thus, it is possible that »albo» is a misprint and 
ought to be album, and »subsanguineum» may be referred to 
an omitted »jugulo». 
Coluber Haje. 
Described by LINNZUS and HASSELQVIST in HASSELQVIST'S Iter Palest. 
p. 317, N:o 62 and by Linnzavus in Mus. Ad. Frid. II, p. 46, Syst. Nat. 
Ed. X, p. 225, Ed. XII, p. 387. 
Syn. according to BouLr. Cat. Sn. III, p. 374, Naia haje. 
From Mus. Drottn. there is a specimen, labeled Coluber 
Haje. This is, however, not identical with Naia haje (L.) 
MeERrzr., but is Spilotes pullatus (1L.) WaAGL. 
The first description of Coluber Haje is given by HASSEL- 
QVIST, in accordance with which LINNAZUS, at a later period, 
in Mus. Ad. Frid. and in Syst. Nat. defines the species Coluber 
Haje. He then gives, however, a different number of shields 
from that of HaAssELoQvist. As the number of the shields given 
by LINNZUS is the same as that we find in this specimen and 
the description in other respects agrees with it, it is probable 
that this one was the type of Col. Haje in Mus. Ad. Frid. 
He reckons HASSELQVIST'S specimen, however, as synonymous 
With this. It is strange that LINNAEus, who laid such great 
stress upon the number of the shields, did not suspect that 
HaASSELQVIST'S specimen, with 60 caudal shields, and this one, 
with 109, must be different species; but possibly he may have 
considered HASSELQVIST'S as mutilated. Where HASSELQVIST'S 
specimen or the true type is, I do not know. 
As well as other specimens of Spilotes pullatus (see p. 23) 
here, this one also differs from the description in Bour. cat. 
by 8 upper labials, the 4:th and 5:th entering the eye. This 
specimen has also a triangular shield wedged in between the 
prefrontalia. 
Total length 2000 mm. Tail 500 mm. Sq. 16. V. 207. GC. 109. 
Coluber viridissimus. 
Described by LINNZUS in Mus. Ad. Frid. IT, p. 46, Syst. Nat. Ed. X, 
p. 226, Ed. XII, p. 388. 
I . a ET . . 
A jar from Mus. Drottn. labeled Coluber viridissimus 
contains a snake, which evidently is not the one LINNAUS 
