270 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Jahrb. wiss. Anst. Hamburg 2 (1885) 81; Boettger, Ber. Senck. 



Nat. Ges. (1886) 117; Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. 3 (1896) 



.393; Casto de Eleea, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (189.5) 440; Griffin, 



Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 2(;6. 

 Hemibungarus gemiaiiulis Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1872) .587. 

 Callophis gemianuliis IMtJLLER, Verli. Nat. Ges. Basel 7 (1883) 289. 

 Hemibungarus geinmiammlis Boettgek, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 



117; Casto de Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 441. 



Description of species. — (From No. 231, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected at Iloilo, Panay, 1914, by Archie L. Howard.) 

 Head not distinct from neck; rostral a little broader than deep, 

 narrowly visible above, forming its broadest suture with nasal; 

 internasals broader than deep, the suture between them about 

 half their width, bordering upper edge of nostril ; prefrontals 

 broader than deep, the left forming a short suture with right 

 internasal, forming equal sutures with posterior nasal and upper 

 preocular ; frontal nearly twice as long as wide, wider and longer 

 than supraoculars, longer than its distance from end of snout; 

 parietals much longer than frontal, nearly twice as long as wide, 

 touching upper postocular and 3 temporals ; 2 nasals, anterior 

 twice as large as posterior, almost surrounding nostril ; no lo- 

 real * ; 2 preoculars, upper much the larger ; eye small, not wider 

 than its distance from mouth; 2 postoculars, lower largest, tem- 

 porals 2 + 2 + 2, upper anterior touching both postoculars; 6 

 upper labials in the following order of size: fifth, sixth, third, 

 fourth, second, first; third and fourth entei-ing eye; 7 lower la- 

 bials, first 4 in contact with anterior chin shields which are twice 

 as large as posterior pair; body scales in 1-5 longitudinal rows, 

 smooth, without apical pits, outer rows largest; ventrals, 197; 

 anal very wide, single; subcaudals, 20 pairs; body cylindrical, 

 tail short and thick, ending in a rather sharp-pointed scute. 



Measurements of Hemibungarus calligaster (Wiegm-ann). 



mm. 



Total length 4g2 



Snout to vent 497 



Tail 35 



Length of head j^2 



Width of head g 5 



Color in alcohol.—Ahove black-blue, traversed by 68 narrow, 

 dotted rows of yellowish white (red in life?) ; head blue-black, 

 the color extending down on side of head involving eye, the entire 

 fourth and fifth labials, and the edges of their adjoining scales; 

 snmit yellowish ; chin cream, the color extending to superior tem- 



* It IS probable that the second nasal is really a loreal element. 



