268 GRIFFIN. 



«'. Tail not, or biit slightly, prehensile. Eed-brown to blue above, bluish beneath. 

 No yellow lateral stripe. Tail colored like the body. 



Trineresurus halieus Griffin. 

 Polillo (Bureau of Science collection) . Known only from this locality. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



I'ropidonotus dorsalis Glinther is classified by Boulenger " as Pseu- 

 doxenodon dorsalis (Glinther). The genus is limited to China and 

 southern India. The reference of a specimen of this species to Manila 

 seems doubtful.^" 



Topidonotus afE. hypomelas Glinther " is i^robably Natrix dendrophiops 

 (Glinther). 



Leptophis vertebralis Dumeril et Bibron, from Luzon,'- is probably 

 a Natrix, which it is not possible to place more definitely at the present 

 time. 



Naja naja (Linnseus) var. sputatrix Boie, listed as from Mindanao 

 by F. Miiller ^^ should probably be Naja naja var. miolepis Boulenger. 



There is some mistake in referring " Piesogaster boettgeri Seoane to 

 Panay and Polloc.^'' Boulenger ^^ includes this species under Epicrates 

 inornatus (Reinhardt) and gives Jamaica, Santo Domingo, and Porto 

 Eico as the localities in which it occurs, making no mention of Panay and 

 Mindanao. 



"Cat. Snakes, Brit. Mas. (1893), 1, 271. 



>°F. Muller, I. Nachtr. Cat. Herp., Samml. Basel Mus. (1880), 31. 



"F. Miiller, III. Nachtr. Cat. Herp., Samml. Basel Mus. (1883), 15. 



"Dumfiril et Bibron, Erpetologie g6n. (1854), 7, 543. 



"F. MiUler, III. Nachtr. Cat. Herp., Samml. Basel Mus. (1883), 18. 



"Seoane, Abhandl. Senok. Ges. (1880), 12, 217. PI. 1. 



'=Boettger, 0., Ber. Senck. Ges. (1886), 115. 



"Cat. Snakes, Brit. Mus. (1893), 1, 97. 



