CLASSIFICATION 45 



Bipsas drapiezi Boie. 



Casto de Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 436. 

 This is Boiga drapiezii Boie, and probably does not occui- in the Phil- 

 ippines. 

 Dipsas fusca Gray. 



Casto de Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 436. 

 This is Boiga fusca Gray, and is confined to Australia. 

 Lycodon bairdi Steindachner (= Psammodynastes 2}iih-ertilentits) . 

 Lycodon culcullatum Dumeril and Bibron, Nomencl. Rept. Amph, Mus. Zool. 

 Berolin, Berlin (1856) 27. 

 This is a synonym of Stegonotus culcullatus, apparently confined to 

 New Guinea and Australia. 



Lycodon modestus part., Schlegel (= part. Stegonotus modestus Schlegel ; 

 part. = Stegonotus culcullatus Dumeril and Bibron). 

 Neither of the two species occurs in the Philippines. 

 Piesigaster boettgeri Seaone (— Epicrates inornatus Reinhardt) . 



This species was originally described from Panay through a wrongly 

 labeled specimen. It is confined to the West Indies. 

 Elaps intestinalis Laurenti (= Doliophis intestinalis) . 



Reported by De Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 441. 

 This species probably does not enter the Philippines. 

 Elaps gracilis Gray (= Callophis gracilis Gray). 



This species reported by De Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 441, 

 appears to be confined to Malay Peninsula and near-by islands. 

 Hydrophis nigrocinctus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 7 (1854) 1351. 



This is Disteira nigrocincta and probably does not occur in the Phil- 

 ippines. 



Trimeresurus hypnale Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 7 (1854) 1498. 

 This is Agkistrodon hypnale Merrem, confined to Ceylon and India. 



CLASSIFICATION OF THE SNAKES 



The scheme of classification followed in this work is prac- 

 tically identical with that used by Stejneger.* 



Suborder Serpentes. 



Family Typhlopidse. 



Leptotyphlopidae. 

 BoidK. 

 Subfamily Pythoninse. 

 Boinse. 

 Family Anillida. 



Uropeltidse. 



Xenopeltidse. 



Natricidse. 



*Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58 (1907). 



