216 COLUBRID, 
A. Blackish brown above, anteriorly with yellowish transverse 
bands ; ventrals broadly bcrdered and spotted with black. 
a. & (V. 165; C. P). Ceram. Dr. Bleeker. 
b. 2, bleached (V. 162; C.72). Ceram. Dr. Bleeker. 
(Coryphodon carinatus, BYkr.) 
B. Dark olive-brown above, with small black spots; ventrals 
mostly edged with black. ? 
c. 9 (V. 142; C. 58). Cape York. 
d. d (V. 154; C. 72). Rockhampton. 
e-g, h. & (V. 149, 151, 150, Port Essington. (Types of T. australis.) 
153; C. 68, 72, ?, 67). 
t. 2 (V. 146; C. P). N.W. Australia. 
C. Uniform reddish- or olive-brown above ; ventrals usually uniform 
yellowish. 
k-o. gf (V. 150; C. ?), 2 Fly River. Rey. S. Macfarlane 
(V. 149; ©.?), & ye. (V. 150, [C.}. 
158, 147; C. 74, 82, 80). 
p- & (V. 144; C. ?). New Guinea, 8. of Dr. Comrie [C.}. 
Huon Gulf. 
gq. 2 (V. 142; OC. 71). St. Aignan, Louis- B. H. Thomson, 
iade Archipelago. — [P.]. 
r. 2 (V. 147; C. 66). N.W. Australia. Sir J. Richardson — 
: (P.}. 
s. Yg. (V. 153; C. 69). N. Australia. Dr. j . R. Elsey 
(P.}. 
12. Tropidonotus truncatus. 
Styporhynchus truncatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18638, p. 899, and 
1869, p. 445, pl. —. fig. 5. 
Apparently allied to 7. picturatus, but snout more prominent and 
truncate, and scales feebly keeled, smooth on the nape. Two pre- 
and two postoculars. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 142-147 ; sub- 
caudals 43. Brown or blackish above; head rusty brown above, 
with a white black-edged streak from below the eye to the side of 
the neck; some of the dorsal scales with a light edge or spot; 
lower surface blackish dotted with whitish, or brownish white dotted 
with black. 
Total length 425 millim. ; tail 75. 
Gilolo, Ternate. 
13. Tropidondtus celebicus. 
Styporhynchus celebicus, Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 
1878, p. 386. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the less prominent snout, the 
rostral being not so deep and more vertical, and the presence of 
three postoculars. Ventrals 140; subcaudals 48. Brown above, 
with two irregular cchraceous stripes ; lips and chin powdered with 
