NAJA 



257 



Description of species. — (From No. 13, Bureau of Science col- 

 lection; collected at Iwahig, Palawan, 1917, by C. M. Weber.) 

 (Adult male.) Rostral barely visible from above, one and one- 

 fifth times as v^'ide as high ; suture 

 between internasals about half 

 the length of scales ; prefrontals 

 larger than internasals, wider 

 than long, drawn to a point 

 laterally which nearly separates 

 preocular from nasal; frontal 

 about one-fifth longer than wide, 

 as wide as but slightly narrower 

 than supraoculars, equal to its 

 distance from rostral; parietals 

 very long, equal to their dis- 

 tance from rostral, bordered by 

 2 large temporals and 2 large 

 postparietals ; nostril between 2 

 nasals and internasal; a small 

 square preocular; 3 postoculars; 

 temporals 2 + 3 ; 7 upper labials, 

 fifth nearly as high as fourth; 

 8 lower labials; anterior chin 

 shields wider but shorter than 

 posterior, which are not separat- 

 ed from each other ; scales in 15 smooth rows about body, 21 rows 

 about neck; ventrals 267; subcaudals 104 (8 undivided); anal 

 single; length of eye contained in distance from eye to snout 

 one and seven-tenths times. 



Color in alcohol. — Yellowish to olive brown above, the scales 

 of posterior part of body edged with brown, growing darker and 

 more pronounced on tail. Body traversed by a number of dim 

 lighter bars, at least seventy, scarcely apparent on anterior part 

 of body or tail; this coloration is due chiefiy to the coloring of 

 the skin between scales. 



Fig. 29. Naja 

 Buuienger ; a, 

 lateral vie^^ 



liannah (Cantor) ; after 

 head, dorsal view ; b, head. 



Measurements of Naja. hannah (Cantor). 



Total length 



Snout to vent 



Tail 



Length of head 



Width of head 



2,315 



1,853 



462 



45 



22 



