ELAPHE 



155 



Table 28. — Measurements and scale counts of Gonyosoma oxyceplialum 



(Boie). 



Locality. 



Mutilated. 



Genus ELAPHE Fitzinger 



Coluber BoiE, Isis (1826) 209; Gunther, Kept. Brit. India (1864) 



237; BOULENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. 2 (1894) 24. 

 Elaphe Fitzinger, in Wagler's Descr. et Icon. Amphib. 3 (1833) pi. 



27; Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58 (1907) 307. 

 Plagiodon Dumeril and Bibron, Mem. Ac. Sci. 23 (1853) 447; Erp. 



Gen. 7 (1854) 170. 

 Elaphis Bonaparte, Mem. Acad. Sci. Torino II 2 (1840) 402. 

 Composoma (non Serv.) Dumeril and Bibron, Mem. Ac. Sci. 23 



(1853) 453; Erp. Gen. 7 (1854) 291; Gunther, Rept. Brit. India 



(1864) 243. 



The name Elaphe must stand for this genus as is shown by 



Stejneger; and Coluber/" the usually accepted name, must be 



used for the genus of poisonous vipers, usually known as Vipera. 



Two fairly well-defined species of this genus are found in the 



Philippines. 



Key to the Philippine species of Elaphe Fitzinger. 

 o'. Ventrals, 216 to 233; subcaudals, 87 to 100; markings on head and neck 

 wanting or indistinct; young, with narrow dim whitish transverse 



white bars - E. erythrura (Dumeril and Bibron) (p. 156). 



tt". Ventrals, 223 to 238; subcaudals, 103 to 110; markings on head and neck 

 distinct; young, brown with black transverse bars inclosing light spots 



E. philippina Griffin (p. 159). 



* Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58 (1907) 443. 



