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SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Psammodywistes pulverulenUis GiJNTHER, Cat. CoL Snakes (1858) 

 251; Eept. Brit. India (1864) 292; Zool. Rec. (1867) 188; Peters, 

 Mon. Berl. Ak. (1861) 687; Theobald, Cat. Kept. Brit. India (1876) 

 188; Fischer, Arch. Nat. (1885) 62; Jahrb. wiss. Anst. Hamburg 

 2 (1885) 81; MocQUARD, Bull. Soc. Philom VII 11 (1887) 172, pi. 

 3; 12 (1888) 104; F. Muller, III. Nacht. Cat. Herp. Samml. Basel 

 Mus. (1883) 17; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 110; Bou- 

 LENGER, Fauna Brit. India, Kept. (1890) 363; Cat. Snakes Brit. 

 Mus. 3 (1896) 172; Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58 (1907) 

 388, figs. 317-319; Griffin, Philip. Journ. Sci. § A 4 (1909) 600; 

 § D 5 (1910) 214; § D 6 (1911) 264. 



Psalmodynastes pidverulentus Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 

 (1917) 366; § D 13 (1918) 260 (typ. err.). 



Lycodon bairdi SteindAchner, Novara Exped. Zool. I. Rept. (1867) 

 90 (type locality, Philippines). 



Anisodon lilljeborgi Rosen, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. VII 15 (1905) 

 176, pi. 11, fig. 3. 



Description of species. — (From No. 79, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected at Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao, October 1, 1912, 

 by E. H. Taylor.) Rostral wider than high, visible from above 

 as a narrow line, the suture with internasals shortest, that with 



Fig. 18. Paaiiiiiiodiinastcs pulverulentun (Boie): al'lor Stejneger; 

 6, head, lateral view : c. head, ventral view. 



head, dorsal view ; 



nasal longest; internasals small, triangular, less than half the 

 size of prefrontals ; latter large, in contact with loreal, preocular, 

 and nasal; frontal elongate, much longer than wide, longer 

 than its distance from end of snout, shorter than parietals, a 

 little wider than supraoculars, its sides concave, pointed behind ; 

 parietals large, longer than wide; nasal longer than deep, nos- 

 tril pierced near middle; loreal small, irregular, touching 2 

 labials ; 2 preoculars, the upper five times as large as the lower, 

 visible from above only as a point ; supraocular large, broadly in 

 contact with prefrontal and preocular, much larger than fron- 

 tal, projecting out over eye, its edge continuous with the rather 



