166 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Snakes of this genus are distributed over southeastern Asia, 

 Malay Archipelago, to Australia. They are largely arboreal, 

 and are harmless. 



Only one species, Dendrophis picttis (Gmelin), is known in 

 the Philippines. Dendrophis ptmctulata, an Australian species, 

 has been reported from the Philippines by Gunther * and by 

 Parenti and Picaglia t and is included in Boettger's, % Casto de 

 Elera's, § and Griffin's !| lists. Boulenger has referred Giinther's 

 specimen to Dendrelaphis terrificii-s (Peters), and I think with- 

 out doubt that the specimen reported by Parenti and Picaglia 

 belongs to this species also ; or, if correctly identified, that it did 

 not originate in Ticao, Philippines, as stated by Parenti and 

 Picaglia. 



DENDROPHIS PICTUS (Gmelin) 



Colaber pictiis Gmelin, Syst, Natura 1 (1788) 1116. 



Coluber deconia Shaw, Zool. 3 (1802) 538. 



Dipsas schokari, part., Kuhl, Beitr. ZooL Verg-. Anat, (1820) 80. 



Ahxtulla decorus Gray, Ann. Phil. 10 (1825) 208. 



Leptophis ahxtiiUa, part., Bell, ZooL Journ. 2 (1825) .328. 



Dendrophis picta Boie, Isis (1827) 530; Stoliczka, .Journ. As. Soc. 

 Bengal 39 (1870) 193. 



Ahietulla belli Gray, III Ind. ZooL 2 (1834) pL SO. 



Dendrophis pictus, part., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 2 (1837) 228, pL 

 9, figs. 5-7; DuMERiL and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 7 (1854) 197; Girard, 

 U. S. ExpL Exp. (1858) 129; Gunther, Cat. CoL Snakes (1858) 

 148; Rept. Brit. India (1864) 297; Jan, Icon. Gen. 32 (1869) pi. 

 1, fig. 3; Theobald, Cat Rept. Brit. India (1876) 190; Boettger, 

 Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 111; Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. 

 Mus. 2 (1894) 78; Casto m Elera, Cat. Faima Filipinas 1 (1895) 

 433; Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. ZooL Harv. Coll. 44 (1912) 117. 



Leptophis pictus Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. (1847) 82. 



Ahxtulla picta Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (1860) 556. 



Leptophis formosus .Jan, Icon. Gen. (1879) 49, pi. 6, fig. 2. 



Description of species. — (From No. 219, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected in Occidental Negros, August 10, 1915, by E. H. 

 Taylor.) Body slender; tail long and slender, somewhat com- 

 pressed ; head elongate, distinct from neck ; rostral broader than 

 high, well visible above ; internasals longer than wide, their mu- 

 tual suture about equal to their suture with prefrontal; pre- 

 frontals larger than internasals, Avider than deep, bending down 

 over sides of head, forming a long suture with loreal, narrowly in 



* Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mus. (1858) 150. 



t Atti. Soc. Nat. Modena, Mem. Orig. Ill 5 (1886) 50. 



JBer. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 111. 



§ Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 433. 



II Philip. Jonrn. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 259. 



