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in any specimen from Indefatigable, James, Jervis, or Bar- 

 rington islands. The third has a number equaled by only one 

 Indefatigable specimen. In other respects these snakes are 

 like the Indefatigable striped specimens, except that the color- 

 ing is a little lighter and brighter. 



TABLE OF SCALE COUNTS, Dromicus dorsalis (Steindachner) 

 SOUTH SEYMOUR ISLAND 



James Island. — The James Island snakes show no important 

 differences from the Indefatigable series. Nos. 10782 and 

 12153 have all urosteges paired. No. 12091 has the second 

 to twenty-first undivided. No. 12092 has a similar condition 

 in the sixth to eighth, tenth to fifteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, 

 twenty-first to twenty-third, twenty-seventh, and one-hun- 

 dredth to one-hundred-and-third. All the others have some 

 unpaired. The temporals usually are one followed by one. 

 Variation in other scale-characters is shown in the following 

 table : 



TABLE OF SCALE COUNTS, Dromicus dorsalis (Steindachner) 

 JAMES ISLAND 



12091 

 12092 

 12094 

 12154 

 12155 

 10782 



12093 



12153 



91 + 



104 + 

 68 + 

 72 + 



101 c 



74 + 



85 + 

 94 + 



1 + 1 

 1 + 1 

 1+2 

 1+1 

 1 + 1 

 1+2 

 1+1 

 1 + 1 

 1+2 

 1 + 1 

 1+2 

 1 + 1 

 1+2 



