236. HEMIBUNGARUS. 393 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Scales in 15 rows ; ventrak 219-260 ; subcaudals 12-22. 



Temporals 2 + 3 ; six upper labials 1. calligaster, p. 393. 



No anterior temporals, sixth upper labial 



forming a suture with the parietal ; seven 



upper labials 2. collaris, p. 393. 



II. Scales in 13 rows. 



Ventrals 218-251; subcaudals 38-44; a 



single temporal , . . . 3. nigrescens, p. 394. 



Yentrals 190-216 ; subcaudals 28-29 ; 



temporals 1 + 1 4. japonicus, p. 395. 



1. Hemibungarus calligaster. 



Elaps calligaster, Wiegm. N. Act. Ac. Leop.-Carol. xvii. i. 1835, 



p. 253, pi. XX. fig. 2 ; Dum. § B^r. vii. p. 1226 (1854) ; Giinth. 



Cat. p. 231 (1858) ; Jan, Rev. 8f Mag. Zool. 1859, pp. 509, 510, and 



Icon. Gin. 43, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1873). 

 Callopiiis calligaster, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 83. 

 Hemibungarus calligaster, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 213 ; 



Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1872, p. 587. 



gemianulis, Peters, I. c. 



Oallophis gemianulis,- F. Miill. Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1883, 



p. 289. 



Rostral a little broader than deep ; frontal once and one third to 

 once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the 

 end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; one prse- and two 

 postoculars ; temporals 2 + 3 ; six upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales in 15 

 rows. Ventrals 219-260 ; anal entire; subcaudals 17-22. Purplish 

 brown to black above, with narrow whitish cross-bars ; red beneath, 

 with black cross-bars, most of which are divided by a light cross-bar ; 

 end of snout yellowish; a black bar on the upper lip below the 

 eye ; end of tail red. 



Total length 520 millim. ; tail 30. 



Philippine Islands. 



a. 2 (V. 219; 0. 22). Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



1,-d $ (V. 229, 235 ; C. 22, Philippines. Museum Godei&oy. 



19) & yg. (V. 260; 



0. 17). 

 e. 2 (V. 221 ; 0. 19). Albay, S.E. Luzon. Whitehead'.Expedition. 



/ Skull of e. 



2. Hemibungarus collaris. 



Elaps collaris, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 448 (1837), and Abhild. 



p 137, pi. xlvi. figs. 10 & 11 (1844) ; Jan, Elenco, p. 114 (1863), 



and Icon. GH. 43, pi. i. fig. 1 (1873). 



gastrodelus, Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 1212 (1854). 



Hemibungarus collaris, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Oes. 1886, p. 117. 



