BOIGA 



205 



darker, elongate, brown spots, arranged in two broken lines 

 on ventrals ; head brownish flecked with darker ; upper labials 

 light, throat and chin muddy white. 



Measurements of Boiga o.ngidata (Peters). 



Length 



Snout to vent 



Tail 



Length of head 



Width of head 



mm. 



1,477 



1,107 



370 



18 



15 



Variation. — A second specimen from Polillo "' is at hand. It 

 agrees very well in scalation with the one described. The bars 

 on body and the ground color above are darker ; below there are 

 fewer dark spots, and no traces of the dark line noted in the 

 described specimen. The frontal in the second specimen is as 

 long as or a little longer than its distance from end of snout. The 

 known ventral range of the species is from 254 to 267 ; subcaudal 



Table 41. — Measurements and scale counts of Boiga angulata (Peters). 



271 

 •789 



(t) 



Locality. 



Negros 



Polillo ._.- 

 Los Ean03 

 Leyte 



F. W. Foxworthy . 



C. Canonizado 



Unknown 



F. Jagor 



No. 



271 

 ■789 



(») 



3,4,5 

 3,4,6 

 3,4,5 

 3,4,5 



10 



10-11 



10 



■J5 



Ea 



2+2 I 

 2+2 ; 

 2 + 1 + 3 



19 ! Bureau of Science. 

 19 ! Do. 



19 College of Af^riculture. 

 19 Berlin ? 



^ Tail slightly mutilated and part missing. 



'■ Type, data from Peters. Mon. Berl. Ak. (1861) 688. 



range, from 126 to 152. The type is said to have a divided 

 nasal. In the specimen I have described the nasal has a slight 

 depression or suture partly dividing it; the second specimen 

 shows no suture or depression. 



* Griffin, Philip. JoUrn. Sci. § D 5 (1910) 214, makes note of the variation 

 of this specimen, and records the fact that the stomach contained a large 

 Calotes. 



