82 COLT7BRID.E. 



D. Bronzy above ; the black streak on the side of the head pro- 



longed as a broad baud along each side of the anterior part 

 of the body ; belly pale olive, immaculate. (D. Tcatowensis, 

 Macleay.) 



a-b. rf (V. 189 ; C. 144) N.W. New Guinea. M. A. Linden [C.]. 

 & $ (V. 190 ; C. 187). 



E. Bronzy or olive above, the scales usually black-edged ; the 

 black streak on the side of the head not prolonged on the 

 body, or but feebly marked; belly yellowish or pale olive, 

 immaculate. (Z>. salomonis, Gthr.) 



a. $ (V. 211 ; C. ?). Timor Laut. II. O. Forbes, Esq. 



[C.]. 



b. 3 (V. 201 ; C. ?). Kei Ids. Capt. Langen [P. j. 

 c-e, f. c? (V. 202, 197 ; Duke of York Id. liev. G. Brown [C.]. 



C. 148, P) & $ (V. 207, 



192; C. 161, 148). 



y, h. d (V. 193, 194 ; Solomon Ids. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 



C. ?, 148). (Types of D. salomonix.) 



i. Yg. (V. 180; C. 126). Alu, Shortland Ids., C. M.Woodford, Esq. 



Solomon Ids. [C.]. 



k. (V. 200 ; C. P). San Christoval, Solo- H. B. Guppy, Esq. 



mon Ids. [P-]' 



/, m. $ (V. 202 ; C. ?) & Santa Anna Id., Solo- H. B. Guppy, Esq. 



yg. (V. 203 ; C. 143). mon Ids. [P,]. 



F. Olive-green to bright green above, uniform bright greenish 



yellow beneath ; black streak on the side of the head well- 

 marked but not continued on the body. 



a-e. $ (V. 180, 182, 188, Kubiana, New Georgia, C. M.Woodford, Esq. 

 186, 187 ; C. 137, 126, Solomon Ids. [C.]. 



130, 131, 137). 



G. Black above, dark olive-grey or blackish beneath. 



a-b. $ (V. 191, 190 ; Rossel Id., Louisiade B. H. Thomson, Esq. 

 C. 125, ?). Archipelago. [P.]. 



c. rf (V. 183 ; U. 136). Normauby, Louisiade B.H. Thomson, Esq. 



Archipelago. [P.]. 



d. 9 (V. 179; C. 126). Guadalcanar, Solomon C. M.Woodford. Esq. 



Ids. [C.]. 



4. Dendrophis punctulatus. 



Leptophis punctulatus, Gray, in King's Voy. Austral, ii. p. 432 



(1827). 

 Dendrophis (Ahsetula) olivacea, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 54 (1842). 



- (Ahsetula) f usca, Gray, I. c. 



- prasinus, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 181, and U.S. 



Explor. Rvped., Herp. p. 131, pi. xii. figs. 7-10 (1858). 



Cat. p. 

 Mus. Genoi-a, xiii. 1878, p. 390. 



. 

 punctulata, Giinth. Cat. p. 149 (1858) ; Peters $ Doria, Ann. 



- f'uscus, Jan, Elenco, p. 86 (1863), and Icon. G6n. 32, pi. iii. 

 fig. 1 (1869). 



- punctulata, Krefft, Snakes of Austral, p. 23, pis. iv. & v. fig. 6 

 (1869). 



