22,5 Taylor: Herpetological Fauna, III 555 



with the scales edged with deeper brown and encircled by forty 

 rings, grayish white on back and sides, and dim silver gray 

 on belly. The bars are narrowed to one or two scale rows 

 above, each separated by five scale rows. The scales are in 

 twenty-five rows. 



The anterior head scales are badly broken. There are two 

 scales between the nasals bordering the rostral; two normal 

 internasals; four prefrontals of which only three border the 

 frontal; the outer one on the right side is broken into four 

 scales. The nasal is broken into two parts, the posterior very 

 small; one preocular is present; the frontal is nearly triangular; 

 there are two postoculars; two anterior temporals, four poste- 

 rior; seven upper labials, the third and fourth entering eye; 

 eight lower labials ; mental very small ; first pair of chin shields 

 large, broadly in contact; the second pair is widely separated 

 by a large scale; a large scale separates the second pair from 

 the lower labials; ventrals, 20; subcaudals, about 33 (anal 

 region badly injured) ; first ventral separated from chin shields 

 by eight scale rows. 



Two living specimens of this species were obtained from a 

 Japanese fisherman, who captured them at Olongapo Naval 

 Station on the Zambales coast of Luzon. They are at present 

 kept alive in the Aquarium of the Bureau of Science. 



