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CALAMARIA X89 



Color in life. — Dark, iridescent brown above, with a very 

 indistinct series of four darker lines, each minutely powdered 

 with a lighter color. Series of white dots begin on outer row of 

 scales and continue regularly to base of tail. A second row of 

 dots begins on second row of scales, but continues only a short 

 distance. Top of head mottled with dark brown, labials almost 

 covered with yellowish white. Lower labials and scales on neck 

 and chin yellow, with brown maculations. Ventrals barred 

 across belly with blackish brown and canary-yellow bars; less 

 heavy coloration in front of anus; underside of tail with a 

 median dark line. 



Measurements of Calamaria gervaisii iridescens Taylor. 



mm. 



Total length 306 



Snout to vent 292 



Tail 14 



Variation. — Five specimens taken agree very well, save that 

 the barring on the belly is much less distinct in very young 

 ones. The females have more ventrals and less subcaudals than 

 the males. 



Remarks. — This subspecies is common on Canlaon Volcano. 

 Specimens were obtained from under logs. One specimen was 

 disgorged by a captured specimen of Cyclocorus lineatus. 



CALAMARIA SULUENSIS sp. nov. 



Calamaria gervaisii Taylor, Philip. .Joui-n. Sci. § D 13 (1918) 260. 



Type. — No. 1837, Bureau of Science collection ; collected on 

 Cagayan Sulu, November, 1917, by E. H. Taylor. 



Description of type. — Rostral about as broad as deep, visible 

 above ; no internasal ; prefrontals large, in contact with 2 

 labials laterally; frontal about one-third longer than wide, tAvo 

 and a half times as wide as supraocular, shorter than parietals; 

 latter in contact for a little more than half their length, in con- 

 tact with fifth labial ; nasal a mere rim about nostril ; no loreal 

 present ; 1 preocular, higher than wide ; 1 postocular ; no an- 

 terior temporals; 1 posterior temporal; 6 upper labials in fol- 

 lowing order of size : fifth, second, third, first, fourth, sixth, the 

 third and fourth entering eye ; 6 lower labials, 3 touching anterior 

 chin shields, first pair of labials not in contact; posterior chin 

 shields nearly three-fourths as long as anterior. Scales in 13 

 smooth rows; ventrals 154; anal single; subcaudals 25; tail much 

 narrowed behind anus, its length contained in total body length 

 nine and a half times. 



