206 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



The type is from Leyte, collected by F. Jagor. Specimens have 

 been taken also in Polillo, Negros, and Catanduanes. 



BOIGA PHILIPPINA (Peters) 



Dipsas ■philippina Peters, Mon. Beri. Ak. (1867) 27; Boettger, Ber. 



Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 113. 

 Dipsadomorphus philippinus BoULENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. 



3 (1896) 77. 

 Boiga philippina Griffin, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 263. 



Description of species. — (After the type description.) An- 

 terior palatine and mandibular teeth strongly enlarged; head 

 very broad; neck narrow; rostral broader than deep, just visible 

 from above; internasals broader than long, much shoi-ter than 

 prefrontals; frontal as long as broad, or a little longer, as long 

 as its distance from rostral ; loreal about as long as deep ; 2 

 preoculars, upper in contact or nearly in contact with frontal; 

 2 postoculars ; temporals variable ; 8 upper labials, third, fourth, 

 and fifth entering eye; 12 lower labials; scales in 19 rows, ver- 

 tebral row hexagonal and stronglj'^ enlarged ; ventrals, 240 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals, 133. 



Color. — Brownish yellow above, with black crosslines ; head 

 spotted with black, but no temporal streak present. 



Measiu-emcnts of Boiga philippina {Peto's}. 



mm. 

 Total len^h • 690 



Snout to vent 535 



Tail 155 



Head length 20 



Remarks. — I have been unable to obtain a specimen of this rare 

 reptile. The type locality is "Ylaces,* Northwest Luzon," col- 

 lected by Semper. It is known only from the tjiJe. 



BOIGA CYNODON (Boie) 



Dipnas cynodoh BoiE, Isis (1827) 559; Guerin, Icon. Reg. Anim. 



Rept. (1829) pi. 21, fig. 2; Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 2 (1837) 268, 



pi. 11, figs. 10 and 11; Gunther, Rept. Brit. India (1864) 308; 



•JAN, Icon. Gen. (1871) 38, pi. 6, fig. 1; Sclater, Journ. As. 



Soc. Bengal 60 (1891) 244; Boettger, Abh. Mus. Dresden No. 7 



(1894-95) 4. 

 Dipsas cynodov, part.. Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. (1847) 77. 

 Opetiodon cynodon Dumeril and BlBRON, Erp. Gen. 7 (1854) 907. 

 Eudipsas cynodon Gunther, Cat. Col. Snakes (1S,5S) 168. 

 Pareas waandersii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind. 21 (1860) 471. 

 Dipsas (Eudipsas) cynodon Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 



113; Casto de Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 435. 



* Probably a misspelling of Ilocos (or Ylocos as the name was formerly 

 spelled), a province in Luzon. 



