66. CHLOROPHI8. 91 



Total l.-n^th 1050 millim. ; tail 300. 

 Philippines, Celebes. 



a. $ (V. 167 ; C. 100). N. Mindanao. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of D. philipvinensin.) 



b, c. 9 (V. 172: C.P) & Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 

 TR.(V. 182; C. 113). 



A $ (V. 179 ; C. 102). Manado. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



5. Dendrelaphis modestus. (PLATE IV. fig. 4.) 



Eye as long as its distance from the nostril. Rostral broader 

 than deep, just visible from above ; internasals as long as the prae- 

 frontals ; frontal once and one third as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal elongate ; one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 

 2 + 2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye; five 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 13 rows. Yentrals 191-193 ; 

 anal divided; subcaudals 114. Olive above, scales black-edged; 

 a rather indistinct dark streak on each side of the head, passing 

 through the eye ; upper lip and lower surface of head yellow ; pale 

 green beneath, the posterior ventrals and the subcaudals margined 

 with blackish. 



Total length 1120 millim. ; tail 315. 



Tern ate. 



a-b. $ (V. 193, 191 ; C. 114, ?). Ternate. II.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



66. CHLOROPHIS *. 



Philothamnus, part., Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. (1840) ; Peters, 



Reise n. Mottamb. iii. p. 128 (18e2) ; fiocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ix. 



1882, p. 1. 

 Leptophis, part., Dum. fy Sibr. Erp. G6n. vii. p. 528 (1854) ; Jan, 



Elenco ti*t. Ofid. p. 84 (1863). 

 Chlorophis, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 62 ; Cope, Proc. Ac. 



Philad. 1860, p. 559 ; Throb. Cat. Rept. A. Soc. Mus. p. 49 (1868). 

 Ahaetulla, part., Oiinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 151 (1868), and Ann. $ 



N. H. (3) xi. 18<, p. 283. 

 Herpetsethiops, G'unth. Ann. fy Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1860, p. 27. 



Fig. 8. 



Maxillary and mandible of Chlorophi* natalenrit. 



* A make figured, but not described, by Jan, aa from Mozambique, 

 phu tvhcarinatus, loon. G6n. 3'2, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1>5'.M. fierhanc belongs to tliis 

 genus, but has feebly-keeled dorsal scales and tbe dentition is represented as 

 UodonU 



