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Variation. — There is a single cotype in my collection presented 

 to me by Mr. W. Schultze. It agrees with the type in scala- 

 tion of the head, save that the second labial is broken on the 

 right side, making 8 upper labials on that side. The color in 

 alcohol is light yellowish brown with 76 very narrow dark 

 transverse bars. There are also 29 indistinct bars on the tail. 

 There are 264 ventrals and 146 subcaudals. The specimen is 

 a young one, collected by C. M. Weber in Palawan. 



Remarks. — The species is related to Boiga drapezi and B. 

 angulata (Peters) . From the former it differs in having two 

 instead of three labials entering the orbit; there are seven 

 instead of eight upper labials; there is a well-developed loreal 

 present. 



From Boiga angulata the species differs in the number of 

 labials and in the number of these entering the eye; in the 

 character of the markings, particularly the very much larger 

 number of bars on the back which do not cross the belly ; and 

 in the presence of the strongly denned lines on the belly. 



I take pleasure in naming the species for Mr. Schultze, who 

 is an entomologist of note and has made extensive herpetolo- 

 gical collections in the Islands. 

 Boiga cynodon (Boie). 



Dipsas cynodon Boie, Isis (1827) 559. 



Boiga cynodon Taylor, Snakes of the Philippine Islands (192*) 20b. 



I collected a single specimen of this species at Abung-abung, 

 Basilan, but failed to find it elsewhere. Mr. Otto Pflueger, 

 of the Forestry School, at Los Banos, Laguna Province, pre- 

 sented me with two young specimens which were collected 

 low on Mount Maquiling. I purchased from a curio dealer m 

 Manila a young specimen which probably was collected in Pa- 

 lawan or Balabac, since the jar in which it was obtained con- 

 tained only species that occur in Palawan, several of which 

 are confined to that island in the Philippines. 



The Basilan specimen was killed by a Yakan, after it had 

 entered his house at night. He had thrown the specimen away 

 when I obtained it in the morning ants had devoured much of 

 the body. Consequently only the head was kept. It is uniform 

 fawn color without any trace of marking. ^ 



I have recorded a specimen of this color from Polilla 



The ventral and subcaudal scale counts are higher^ ^Pa- 

 lawan specimens than the average 



those from the eastern 



