78 LEONHARD STEJNEGER 



Natrix sarawacensis (Günther). 

 A young specimen, tail broken; sc. 17; ventr. 14; an. 2; 

 subc. 63 +; supral. 9; oc. 2 + 2; temp. 2 + 2. 



Elaphe ßavolineata (Schlegel). 



This is the species commonly known as Coluber mela- 

 nurus Schlegel, described and named by him in his Physio- 

 logie des Serpents, vol. 2, 1837, p. 141, but this name is pre- 

 occupied by Coluber melanurus Shaw; General Zoology, 

 vol. 3, pt. 2, 1802, p. 552. Sghlegel, however, on the same 

 page described the young of this species, from Java, as Coluber 

 ßavolineatus. 



Two males, with 19 scale rows; 220 and 223 ventral; 

 single anal; 101 subcaudals; 1 -j- 2 oculars. One has 2 -f- 2 

 temporals, the other has 2 + 2 on one side end 2 -|- 3 on the 

 other. 



Gonyosoma oxycephalum (Boie). 



Two males; the scale formulas aie as follows: 



sc. 23; ventr. 238; an. 2; subc. 135; supral. 9; oc. 1 + 2; 

 temp. 2 + 3. 



sc. 27; ventr. 235; an. 2; subc. 128; supral. 9; oc. 1+2; 

 temp. 1 + 3 and 2 + 4. 



Gongylosoma baliodeirum (Boie). 

 This species is generally referred to as Ablabes balio- 

 deirus. Duméril and Bibron, in 1854 (Erp. Gén., vol. 7, p. 304) 

 erected the genus Ablabes for a heterogeneous assembly of 

 species now considered as belonging to a number of different 

 genera. They did not designate a type, and apparently no such 

 designation was definitely made until Boulenger, in 1890, spe- 

 cifically selected Coronella baliodeira of Boie as the type 

 (Fauna Brit. Ind., Rept., p. 304). It therefore becomes a synonym 

 of Gongylosoma Fitzinger (Syst. Rept., 1843, p. 25) which was 

 based exclusively and specifically on Coronella baliodeira 



