148 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Remarks. — The type, collected by H. Cuming, is reported from 

 "Philippine Islands;" the exact locality is no longer known. A 

 specimen is recorded from southern Negros, taken by 'A. Everett. 

 Both these specimens are males. I failed to find this species in 

 my collecting in central and northern Negros ; if it occurs there, 

 it is probably very rare. 



OLIGODON NOTOSPILUS Gunther 



Plate 7, fig. 2; Plate 17, figs. 3 to 5; Plate 18, fig. 1 



OUgodon notospihis Gunther, Proc. ZooL Soc. London (1873) 169, 

 pL 18, fig. A; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 106; Boulen- 

 GER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus^ 2 (1894) 239;, Casto DE Elera, Cat. 

 Fauna Filipinas 1 (189.5) 426; Griffin, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 

 6 (1911) 260. 



Description of species. — (From No. 242, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected at Balabac, 1916, by C. M. Weber.) (Adult 

 female.) Head not or but slightly distinct from neck, with 

 snout moderately blunt; rostral high, bent over snout, portion 

 visible above shorter than its distance from frontal; inter- 

 nasals four-sided, narrowed medially, the sutures with pre- 

 frontals and nasals largest, the suture with the latter slightly 

 smaller than that with the former but much larger than the 

 sutures with rostral ; prefrontals about twice as large as inter- 

 nasals, extending laterallj^ to below level of middle of eye ; suture 

 between prefrontals little larger than that between internasals; 

 sutures formed with frontal and internasals largest, subequal; 

 frontal distinctly longer than its distance from end of snout, 

 a little longer than wide, two to two and a half times as wide as 

 supraocular, but little .shorter than parietals ; latter about as 

 broad as long, narrowly separated from fifth labial, bordered 

 by 2 temporals and a postparietal scale larger than body scales; 

 nasal apparently divided; loreal small, distinctly longer than 

 wide ; a single preocular larger than loreal ; supraocular elongate, 

 about twice as long as wide, more than half the length of 

 frontal ; rather large postocular ; temporals 1 + 2, set diagon- 

 ally; 7 upper labials, third and fourth entering eye; 8 lower 

 labials, 4 touching first pair of chin shields, which are larger 

 than second pair; scales in 15 rows; ventrals, 139; anal single; 

 subcaudals, 35. 



Color in alcohol.—BaYk purplish brown above with numerous 

 yellow spots, suggesting a reticulated pattern, and a series of 

 eighteen median, rhomboidal, yellowish brown spots with 

 blackish edges; head yellowish brown with two chevron-shaped 

 dark bands, the anterior including the eyes; the second band 



