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SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Remarks.— This species is known from Negros, where it was 

 collected by A. B. Meyer. The type, collected by Cuming, ig 

 labeled "Philippines;" the exact locality is no longer known. 

 Only a few specimens appear to be known. 



PSEUDORHABDIUM MCNAMAR/E Taylor 

 Pseudorhabdimn nwnamara; Taylor, Philip. .Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 

 263. 

 Description of species.— (From the type, No. 196, E. H. Tay- 

 lor collection ; collected on Canlaon Volcano, Occidental Negros, 

 December 24, 1915, at an elevation of about 900 meters, by 

 E. H. Taylor.) Rostral small, about as wide as high, a large 

 part visible from above; internasals moderate, five-sided, their 



a c 



Fig. 15. Pgriidmbalidiuiii monamarir Taylor; a, head, dorsal view: 6. head, lateral view; c, 



head, ventral view. 



sutures with nasal and prefrontal equal, forming their shortest 

 suture with loreal; prefrontals nearly three times as large as 

 internasals, entering eye. touching frontal, loreal, internasal, 

 and supraocular, the longest suture with loreal, the shortest 

 with supraocular; frontal hexagonal, a little wider than long, 

 the sides touching supraoculars shortest, the parietal sides 

 longest ; parietals at least twice as long as wide, six-sided, in 

 contact with fifth labial ; nasal rectangular, much elongate, with 

 nostril pierced near anterior edge close by rostral ; behind this 

 a very much enlarged, elongate loreal, in contact with second 

 and third labials, entering eye ; supraocular extending over 

 only posterior part of eye and somewhat behind ; postocular 

 fused with supraocular ; no anterior temporals ; a single large 

 posterior temporal behind fifth labial, bordering on parietal; 

 5 upper labials, fifth largest, in the following order of size : fifth, 

 third, fourth, second, first; third and fourth enter eye; 5 lower 



