272 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



No. 22, Bureau of Science collection, is similar to No. 25 but has 

 23 black-brown bars on body, and 2 on tail ; the dorsal part of 

 the light interspaces has a brownish wash and the brown bars 

 are darker on the edges which are bordered with lighter color; 

 ventrally the bars inclose an irregular lighter area. Nos. 23 and 

 28, Bureau of Science collection, have 24 and 27 dark bars, respec- 

 tively, but the light interspaces, except on tail, are a shade lighter 

 brown, bordered by narrow zigzag lighter lines ; the lighter area 

 on the ventral bars is wanting in these two specimens. No. 26 

 is a very young specimen, which has its 24 black bars entirely 

 divided transversely by a narrow light line. 



Remarks. — This species is found in all the eastern Philippines. 

 Specimens are known from Luzon (many localities) and southern 

 Mindanao. The type locality is probably Manila. 



HEMIBUNGARUS MCCLUNGI sp. nov. 

 Plate 33, fig. 3; Plate 34, figs. 3 and 4 

 Hemibungarua sp. Griffin, Philip. Jouin. Sci. § D 5 (1910) 214. 



Type. — No. 24, Bureau of Science collection ; collected on Po- 

 lillo Island, October, 1909, by C. Canonizado. 



Description of type. — This species is allied to Hemihungarus 

 calligaster, but differs from it in having a shorter, stouter body, 

 a larger, more elongate head, the second labial in contact with 

 preocular, the black stripe across head absent, and a lower aver- 

 age of ventrals. Head distinct from neck; rostral narrowly visi- 

 ble from above, about as broad as deep ; internasals broader than 

 deep, their mutual suture slightly more than half that between 

 prefrontals ; latter broader than long, their suture with frontal 

 forming a straight transverse line ; frontal five-sided, very much 

 wider and longer than supraoculars, the longest sides parallel; 

 parietals narrow, elongate; nostrils pierced in posterior part of 

 anterior nasal, which almost surrounds nostril; this followed by 

 a second nasal (or loreal) element; a single preocular; 2 postocu- 

 lars ; 2 large anterior temporals ; 6 upper labials, second in con- 

 tact with preocular, third and fourth entering eye; 6 lower labials, 

 3 touching first chin shields, which are only slightly larger than 

 second pair; ventrals, 206; anal single; subcaudals, 21. 



Color in alcohol. — Above cream white traversed by 22 purplish 

 bands about 6 scales wide ; some of these bands are partially di- 

 vided transversely by a light streak, visible ventrally and some- 

 what evident on sides; the first band on neck is broadest and 

 reaches forward to parietals ; the band is broadly interrupted on 

 underside of neck, and is transversely divided dorsally; 2 bands 



