296 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



almost join each other on neck dorsally ; they are more distinct 

 on latter third of body, and merge into each other again on tail ; 

 darker scales on head edged with black; no streak behind eye, 

 a suggestion of black around labials. 



Measurements of Trimeresurus philippensis Gray. 



mm. 



Total length 450 



Length of head 22 



Diameter of eye ■ 4 



Eye to end of snout 8 



Head between eyes 14 



Remarks. — Only this single specimen has been seen and, 

 unfortunately, the locality is not known. The specimen is in 

 the Santo Tomas Museum, Manila. This species is very prob- 

 ably identical with Tropidolaemus hombroni Guichenot from 

 western Mindanao. 



TRIMERESURUS WAGLERI (Boie) 



Cophias wagleri BoiE, Isis (1827) .561. 



Trigonocepkalus wagleri Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 2 (1837) 542, pi. 



19, figs. 16-18. 

 Trimeresurus inacidatus Gray, Zool. Misc. (1842) 48; Cat. Vip. 



Snakes (1849) 8; Motley and Dillwyn, Nat. Hist. Labuan (1855) 



43. 

 Trimesurus supannulattis Gray, Zool. Misc. (1842) 48; Cat. Vip. 



Snakes (1849) 9; Motley and Dillwyn, Nat. Hist. Labuan (1855) 



44. 

 Trimesurus swmatrayius (non Raffles) Gray, Zool. Misc. (1842) 48; 



Cat. Vip. Snakes (1849) 10. 

 Trigonocephalus sumatraniis Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. (1847) 121, 



pi. 40, fig. 9. 

 Trimesurus formosus (non Schlegel) Gray, Cat. Vip. Snakes (1842) 



10. 

 Tropidolxmus wagleri Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 7 (1854) 



1524; F. MtJLLER, Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel 7 (1883) 290. 

 Trigonoeephalus hombroni Jan, Rev. & Mag. Zool. (1859) 155. 

 Tropidoliemus subannidahis Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1861) 691. 

 Tropidolsemus philippinensis Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1S61) 691. 

 Trim-eresurus wagleri Giinther, Rept. Brit. India (1864) 388; 



Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 42 (1873) 126; Blanforr, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. London (1881) 224. 

 Trimercsums subannulatus immacnlatus Peters, Ann. Mus. Genova 



3 (1872) 42. 

 Tropidoliemus svbawiinlafus celcbcvsis Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1872) 



584. 

 Bofhrops wagleri F. Muller, Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel 7 (1882) 155; 

 De .Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. 8 (1886) 44. 



