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Psalmodynastes pulverulentus Boie. 



A specimen of this widely distributed species was taken on 

 Mount Canlaon at an elevation of about 1,000 meters. It is 

 very light yellowish brown, the ventral surface is canary. A 

 second specimen from Negros is in the Bureau of Science collec- 

 tion, 



Dryophis prasinus Boie. 



A single specimen was taken in the foothills about Mount 

 Canlaon. Probably not as common in Negros as in some other 

 islands. 



Boiga angulata Peters. 



A single specimen in the Bureau .of Science collection was 

 taken by Dr. F. W. Foxworthy on Mount Marapara in Negros. 



Lapemis hardwicki Gray. 



. Common along the coasts, where it is frequently taken in fish 

 corrals. Several specimens in the collection from Hinigaran. 



Crysopelea ornata Shaw. 

 Reported from Negros by Boulenger. 



Trimeresurus wagleri alboviridis subsp. nov. 



Type. — No. 432, young female, E. H. T. collection. Isabela, 

 Occidental Negros, P. I., September 12, 1915. E. H. Taylor, 

 collector. 



Description of type. — Head triangular, very distinct from the 

 neck, nearly 1.5 times as long as wide; rostral about as wide as 

 high, not visible from above, bordered behind by two enlarged 

 internasals; latter narrowly in contact, being nearly separated 

 by three small scales; nasal bordered above by the internasal, 

 two supranasals, and a postnasal folded over the canthus ros- 

 tralis, the dorsal part much larger than the lateral; nasal large, 

 longer than wide, nostril pierced near anterior margin, bordered 

 behind by postnasal and seven or eight small intercalated scales, 

 completely separating nasal from loreal and the latter from first 

 labials ; pit surrounded by the median preocular and two loreals ; 

 anterior loreal much larger than posterior, in contact with 

 second labial and one supralabial; three preoculars, the middle 

 one largest, the lower very small ; two small subequal postoculars ; 

 a narrow, crescentic, elongate subocular, separated from the 

 labials by a series of supralabials ; supra-ocular region covered 

 by four enlarged scales, supra-ocular somewhat longer than wide ; 



