80 LEONHARD STEJNEGER 



1894, p. 239, pi. 11, fig. 1). In the present specimen the under 

 side, instead of being uniformly red, has the basal half of each 

 ventral scute of a much darker shade, and the throat and lower 

 neck spotted with blackish. 



Chrysopelea, pelias (Linné). 



Dr. L. G. Anderson, in his catalog of the Linnean types 

 of snakes (1899), p. 34, has shown that this name which dates 

 from the 10th edition of the Systema Naturae (1758) takes 

 precedence over Schlegel's Dendrophis chrysochloros. 



One male: sc. 17; ventr. 187; an. 2; subc. 114; supralab. 9; 

 oc. 1+2; temp. 2 -|- 2 on one side, 2 + 3 on the other. 



Passerita prasina (Boie). 



The generic name Passerita which Gray proposed in 

 1825 (Ann. Philos, (new ser.) vol. 10, p. 208) as a substitute for 

 Dryinus of Merrem, 1822, preoccupied by Fabricius in 1804 

 for a hymenopterous insect genus, has been rejected by Boulenger 

 in favor of Dryopliis of Dalman under the erroneous suppo- 

 sition that Dalman's work was published in 1822. As a matter 

 of fact, the publication in which Dalman substitute Dryophis 

 for Dryinus dates from 1827 and is consequently one year 

 younger than Fitzinger's (and Boie's) identical substitution 

 (Neue Class. Rept., 1826, p. 30). Dalman's Dryophis occurs in 

 a rare pamphlet, which I have had the opportunity to examine 

 in the great library in Berlin. It is an octavo publication of 

 118 pages with the following title: Årsberättelse om nyare zo- 

 ologiska arbeten och upptäckter, till Kongl. Vetenskaps-x4.ca- 

 demien, afgifven den 31 Mars 1827. Af J. W. Dalman, Stock- 

 holm, tryckt hos P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1827. 



On page 48, referring to a paper by Bell and citing it as 

 published in „Zool. Journ. No. 7, p. 32. — Bull. Univ. 1826, 9, 

 p. 104" he states that Bell refers to the group called by him 

 Leptorhina two genera „viz. Dryinus Merr. [Dryopliis Dn.), 



