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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part IV. 



Family 11.— DENDEOPHIDiE. (7 Genera, 35 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 



SUBrREGIONS. 



i.a.3.4 



Nearctio 

 s ub-regioks. 



Pal^arctic 

 sub-beqions. 



Ethiopian 

 sub-rkgions. 



1 . 2.3.4 



Oriental 

 sub-reoions. 



1 .2.3.4 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



1.2 



The Dendrophidse, or Tree Snakes, are found in all the Tropical 

 regions, but are most abundant in the Oriental. The genera are 

 distributed as follows : — 



Dendrophis ranges from India and Ceylon to the Pelew 

 Islands and North Australia, and has one species in West Africa; 

 Ahmtulla is almost equally divided between Tropical Africa and 

 Tropical America ; Gonyosoma ranges from Persia to Java and the 

 Philippines ; Ghrysopclea is found in India, Borneo, the Philip- 

 pines, Amboyna, and Mysol ; Hapsidropliis and Bucephalus are 

 confined to Tropical Africa ; and Ithymjphus (1 sp.), is peculiar 

 to Madagascar. 



Family 12.— DEYIOPHID^. (5 Genera, 15 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 Sub-regions. 



Nearctic 

 Sub-regions. 



PaL/Earctic I Ethiopian I Oriental 

 Sub-begions. Sub-regions. Sub-regions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



a. 3— —2 — 4 1.2.3.4 1 



The Dryiophidse, or Whip Snakes, are a very well characterised 

 family of slender, green-coloured, arboreal serpents, found in the 

 three tropical regions but absent from Australia, although they 

 just enter the AustraHan region in the island of Celebes. In 

 Africa they are confined to the West Coast and Madagascar. 

 The genera are : — 



Bryiophis (4 sp.). Tropical America and West Africa : Tropi- 

 dococcijx (1 sp.), Central India ; Tragops (4 sp.), Bengal to China, 

 the Philippines, Java, and Celebes; Passerita (2 sp.), Ceylon 



