216 COLUBBID^. 



A. Blackish brown above, anteriorly witb yellowish transverse 



bands ; ventrals broadly bcrdered and spotted with black. 



a. S (V. 165 ; C. ?). Ceram. Dr. Bleeker. 



b. $ , bleached (V. 162 ; C. 72). Ceram. Dr. Bleeker. 



(Coryphodon carinatus, Blkr.) 



B. Dark olive-brown above, with small black spots ; ventrals 



mostly edged with black. 



c. ? (V, 142 ; C. 58). Cape York. 



d. (S (V. 154 ; C. 72). Rockhampton. 



e~ff, h. (S (V. 149, 151, 150, Port Essington. (Types of T. aMsirafos.) 



153; C. 68, 72, ?, 67). 

 i. 5 (V. 146 ; C. ?). N.W. Australia. 



C. Uniform reddish- or olive-brown above ; ventrals usually uniform 



yellowish. 



k-o. (5 (V. 150 ; C. ?), S Fly Eiver. Kev. S. Macfarlane 



(V.149;C.F),&vg.(V.150, [C.]. 

 153, 147; C. 74,82,80). 



p. cJ (V. 144; C. ?). New Guinea, S. of Dr. Comrie [C.]. 



Huon Gulf, 



y. ? (V. 142; C. 71). St. Aignan, Louis- B. H. Thomson, 



iade Archipelago. Esq. [P.]. 



)•. 9 (V. 147 ; C. 66). N.W. Australia. Sir J. Richardson 



LP.]. 



s. Yg. (V. 153; C. 69). N.Australia. Dr. J. R. Elsey 



12. Tropidonotus truncatus. 



Stvpoihynchus truncatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 399, and 

 1869, p. 445, pi. — . fig. 6. 



Apparently allied to T. pieturatus, but snout more prominent and 

 truncate, and scales feebly keeled, smooth on the nape. Two prae- 

 and two postoculars. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 142-147 ; sub- 

 caudals 43. Brown or blackish above ; head rusty brown above, 

 with a white black-edged streak from below the eye to the side of 

 the neck ; some of the dorsal scales with a light edge or spot ; 

 lower surface blackish dotted with whitish, or brownish white dotted 

 with black. 



Total length 425 millim. ; tail 75. 



Gilolo, Ternate. 



13. Tropidonotus celehicus. 



Styporhynchus celebicus, Peters S/- Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 

 1878, p. 386. 



Distinguished from the preceding by the less i)rominent snout, the 

 rostral being not so deep and more vertical, and the presence of 

 three postoculars. Ventrals 140 ; subcaudals 48. Brown above, 

 with two irregular cchraceous stripes ; lips and chin powdered with 



