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color, slaty with a diffuse network of white hnes. A specimen (M. C. Z., No. 

 3,055), from Batavia, is almost uniform brown with a white collar. Five Bryant 

 specimens from Buitenzorg and one from Depok are also the same in color as var. 

 D of Boulenger. They may be known as L. aulicus capucinus Boie. 



Stegonotus cucuUatus (Ddm. et Bibr.). 

 DuMERiL ET BiBRON, Erpet. gen., 1854, 7, p. 376. Boulenger, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1893, 1, p. 365. 



Type locality: — Dorey, Dutch New Guinea. 



Two fine examples of this Papuasian species were in a small collection 

 obtained from that excellent zoological collector, Mr. A. E. Pratt. He took 

 them at Fak Fak, in western Dutch New Guinea. 



Stegonotus modestus (Schlegel). 



ScHLEGEL, Essai phys. Serp., 1837, 2, p. 119, pi. 4, fig. 16-17. Boulenger, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 

 1893, 1, p. 366. 



Type locality: — Ambon. Schlegel definitely mentions this type locality 

 for the only specimen which he had for description and figuring. He simply 

 mentions passim that the Paris museum had a snake, apparently similar, taken 

 by Lesson and Garnot in the forests of New Guinea near Dorey Bay. T his 

 specimen was the very one which served Dumeril and Bibron for the type of 

 their Lycodon cucuUatus. 



In the collection made by Pratt at Fak Fak, New Guinea, there were two 

 large examples of this rather widespread species, 



Zaocys carinatus (Gunther). 



GtJNTHER, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1858, p. 112. Boulenger, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1893, 1, p. 377, 

 pi. 27, fig. 1. 



Type locality: — not specified. 



It was a great surprise to find two adults of this species from Depok, Java, 

 in the Bryant collection. Both are quite typical, except for the presence of nine 

 supralabials on the left side of the head of one of them. In this case the fifth 

 and sixth supralabials enter the eye, while ordinarily this is done by the fourth 

 and fifth. 



Boulenger gave the range for this species as Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay 

 Peninsula; I have found no previous Javan records for its occurrence. It is 

 evidently very rare, and of local distribution. 



Ptyas korros (Schlegel). 

 Schlegel, Essai phys. Serp., 1837, 2, p. 139. Stejneger, Bull. 58, U. S. nat. mus., 1907, p. 348-349. 



Type locality: — Java. 



This species is abundant about Buitenzorg. Nine examples were taken 



