2o2 COtUBEIDJ!. 



of the snout, sbortcr than the parietals ; loreal deeper than long ; 

 one or two proe- and three postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2; eight 

 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter 

 than the jjosterior. Scales in 17 rows, all strongl)' keeled. Ven- 

 trals 162-157; anal divided; suhcaudals 76-91. Dark olive- 

 brown above, with a yellowish vertebral stripe ; a white lateral 

 stripe along the outer row of scales, expanding, club-shaped on the 

 temple ; forehead yellowish brown, with blackish vermiculations ; a 

 black cross bar between the eyes ; labials white, with black sutures ; 

 belly white, with three black longitudinal bands, the middle one 

 broadest, or black posteriorly, with two series of white spots ; lower 

 surface of tail white in the middle, black on the sides ; these markings 

 becoming indistinct in full-grown specimens. 



Total length 400 miUim.; tail 115. 



Philijjpine Islands. 



a. 2 0'. 153 ; 0. 76j. Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type.) 

 b-e. c? (V. 156, 157, 155; Pasananca. H.JVl.S. ' Challenger.' 



C. 91, 89, 85) & 5 (V. 



156; C.?,. 



69. Tropidonotus creliripunctatus. 



Tropidonotus crebripunctatus, Wicgm. N. Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. xvii. 

 i. 1835, p. 250. 



Head short, very distinct from neck. E5-e very large. Rostral 

 broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals as long as 

 hroad, as long as the pnefrontals ; frontal once and three fifths as 

 long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 

 as long as the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; two praj- and three 

 postoculars; temporals 2 -f 3 ; eight to ten upper labials (the spe- 

 cimen in the collection has eight on one side, ten on the other), 

 fourth and fifth, fifth or sixth, or sixth and seventh entering the eye ; 

 four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, all strongly 

 keeled. Ventrals 148-166; anal divided; suhcaudals 96-101. 

 Olive above, vertebral line lighter and crosssd by narrow black 

 bars; upper lip yellowish, the shields black-edged above; belly 

 whitish, with a black dot at the outer end of each shield; posterior 

 ventrals hrown on the sides ; suhcaudals entirely brown. 



Total length 680 millim. ; tail 230. 



Philippine Islands. 



a. 5 (V. 166; C. 101). Philippine Islands. II. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 

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70. Tropidonotus lineatus. 



Tropidonotus lineatus, Peters, Mon. Berl Ac. 1861, p. 688. 



Apparently very closely allied to the preceding, but with a single 

 anterior temporal and fewer ventrals (142j and suhcaudals (66). 

 Samar Island, Philippines. 



