198 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



a-. 90 to 110 narrow, yellow bars on body and tail; ground color dark 

 black; ventrals, 220 to 240; subcaudals, 105 to 115. 



B. d. mi'lticincta (Boulenger) (p. 200). 



(('. 81 to 97 narrow, grayish white bars; ground color dull black washed 

 with gray; young, brownish with a yellow line defining the temporal 

 region. Ventrals, 219 to 228; subcaudals, 80 to 87. Luzon, Samar, 

 Polillo - B. d. divergens subsp. nov. (p. 201). 



BOIGA DENDROPHILA LATIFASCIATA (Boulenger) 



Dipsadomorphus dendrophilu^ var. latifasciatiis Boulenger, Cat. 

 Snakes Brit. Mus. 3 (1896) 71. 



Description of subspecies. — (From No. 18, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected at Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao, October 10, 1912, 

 by E. H. Taylor.) (Adult male.) Head short and blimt, much 

 widened in parietal region, very distinct from neck; rostral 

 somewhat wider than deep, barely visible from above, its sutures 

 with internasals and nasals subequal ; internasals broader than 

 long, not touching loreal, little shorter than prefrontals; latter 

 broader than long, in contact with loreal and nasal, forming their 

 smallest sutures with the former ; frontal seven-eighths as wide 

 as long, broader than supraoculars but of equal length, as long 

 as or a little longer than its distance from end of snout, 

 its anterior suture a continuous straight line ; parietals large, 

 much longer than wide, their width equaling length of frontal; 

 a slightly enlarged transverse row of scales bordering labials, 

 temporals, and parietals posteriorly ; nostril large, between 2 

 nasals; loreal small, triangular, longer than wide, not entering 

 eye; preocular large, widely separated fl'om frontal, visible 

 from above; supraocular little longer than wide; 2 postoculars, 

 inferior largest; temporals 2 -|- 3 (on the right side the lower 

 is crowded back somewhat, and only 1 temporal touches post- 

 oculars) ; 8 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering eye; 

 seventh largest ; sixth on right side is broken horizontally ; men- 

 tal twice as wide as deep; 10 lower labials, 4 in contact with 

 anterior chin shields which are much longer and broader than 

 second pair; a small, third pair of chin shields; eye large, its 

 diameter equal to its distance from anterior border of nostril; 

 ventrals, 210; anal single; subcaudals, 98 pairs; body much com- 

 pressed. 



Color in life. — Coal black above with (H) greenish yellow bands 

 around body, each yellow scale bordered with black; the bands 

 crossing belly usually the width of threa ventrals; about 16 of 

 these bands belong to tail and do not extend entirely across 

 ventral surface; on posterior part of body they do not cross 

 entirely; first 24 ventrals on neck yellow, narrowly edged with 



