NATRIX 



97 



TABLE 14. — Measurements and scale counts of Matrix deiidrophiops 

 dendrophiops (Gunther) . 



No. 



66 

 67 

 68 

 59 

 b60 

 1713 



Collector. 



B ana wan, Agusan.._ E. H. Taylor . d 



do do yj 



1 do _do yj 



do - ' do 



do do Q 



... do 1 do 9 



Zamboanga i H. M. S. Challenger. ^ 9 



165 

 154 

 156 

 165 

 154 



Collection. 



2 : 



2 

 1-2 j 



2 I 

 2 

 2 

 1-2 



10-8 



9 '■ 

 9-8 

 9 



4,6,6 



4.6,6 



4,5,6 



4.6,6 



4,5,6 



4,5,6 [ 



4,6,6 



E. H. Taylor 



Do. 



Do. ^ 



Do. 



Do. 

 Bureau of Science. 

 British Museum. 



Mutilated. 



■ Type. 



NATRIX DENDROPHIOPS NEGROSENSIS Taylor 



Natrix dendrophiops negrosensis Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 1 2 

 (1917) 356. 



Description of species. — (From the type, No. 128, E. H. Taylor 

 collection; collected on Canlaon Volcano, Occidental Negros, by E, 

 H. Taylor.) Rostral fairly large, nearly twice as wide as high, 

 upper edge curved and distinctly visible from above, its sutures 

 with nasals little longer than those with internasals ; the latter 

 longer than broad, the suture between them equal to their su- 

 tures with prefrontals, which are less than the suture with na- 

 sals; prefrontals much broader than long, narrowed on sides, 

 forming coequal sutures with internasal and frontal, their short- 

 est suture with supraocular ; frontal longer than broad, wider, but 

 not as long as supraoculars, somewhat shield-shaped, longer than 

 its distance from end of snout, shorter than parietals ; the latter 

 longer than broad, bordered laterally by 2 elongate temporals, 

 in contact with only 1 postocular ; nostril between 2 nasals, which 



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