NAJA 



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intense and lighter. In the young the black may cover as few 

 as fifteen ventrals ; also in the young the lighter line beginning 

 on the hood appears more prominent. In all the specimens there 

 is a small, lower labial inserted betvreen the upper part of third 

 and fourth lower labials bordering mouth; in the specimen de- 

 scribed it is absent on one side. One specimen in the Bureau 

 of Science, collected in Samar, has much more yellow on body; 

 it is distributed in roundish spots on all the scales, the color rarely 

 covering the entire scale, but frequently spots on two or three 

 scales are confluent ; the lateral light line is distinct in this adult 

 specimen, and it has nineteen rows of scales around the body. 

 The variation * in counts of scale rows on neck and body, and of 

 ventrals and subcaudals, may be represented by the following 



19 - 2-3 

 formula: ifzicy, 16.5 to 178: 42 to -50. Two specimens have two 



undivided subcaudals ; there is some variation in the relative 

 width and height of the rostral. 



Table 55. — Measi.trements and scale counts of Ncija naja samarensis Peters. 



No. 



Collector. 



Sex oi 

 ag-e. 



23 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 27 

 28 

 R20 



Bunawan. Agusan E. H. Tayloi- _ 



do do 



do do 



do I do 



do do 



do do 



Catbalog-an. Samar G. I. Cullen.. 



9 

 ? 



9 



No. 



Ven- 

 trals. 



Sub- 

 cau- 

 dals. 



Scale 



Upper Lower 

 labials, labials. 



Body. : Neck. 



25 ; 



26 ! 



121 

 145 



178 

 165 

 172 

 173 

 175 



42; 

 46 

 45 

 44 

 43 i 



17 I 



17 



17 



17 



19 



E. H. Taylor. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Bureau of Science. 



' Mutilated. 



Length. 



mm. I 



278 



(a) 



810 

 870 

 900 

 339 

 1009 



I do not believe that the differences here recorded warrant 

 giving this form specific designation while the other two forms, 



* Combining' the data recorded in the table with those in Boulenger's Cat- 

 alogTie, op. cit. :385. 



