66. CHLOBOPHIS. 91 



Total length 1050 millim. ; tail 300. 

 Philippines, Celebes. 



a. 2 (V. 167 ; C. 100). N. Mindanao. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of -D. philippinensis.) 



b, c. $ (V. 172 ; 0. ?) & Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [CI. 

 yg.(V.182; C.113). 



d. $ (V. 179 ; C. 102). Manado. Dr. A. B. Meyer [0.]. 



5. Dendrelaphis modestus. (Plate IV. fig. 4.) 



Eye as long as its distance from the nostril. Eostral broader 

 than deep, just visible from above ; intemasals as long as the prse- 

 frontals ; frontal once and one third as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal elongate ; one prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 

 2 + 2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye; five 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 191-193 ; 

 anal divided ; subcaudals 114. Olive above, scales black-edged ; 

 a rather indistinct dark streak on each side of the head, passing 

 through the eye ; upper Kp and lower surface of head yellow ; pale 

 green beneath, the posterior ventrals and the subcaudals margined 

 with blackish. 



Total length 1120 millim. ; tail 315. 



Tern ate. 



a-b. S (V. 193, 191 ; 0. 114, ?). Ternate. H.M.S. ' ChaUenger.' 



66. CHLOROPHIS*. 



Philothamnus, part., Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Hept. (1840) ; Peters, 



JReise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 128 (1882) ; Bocage, Jom. Se. Lisb. ix. 



1882, p. 1. 

 Leptophis, part., Bum. Sr Bibr. Erp. G4n. vii. p. 528 (1854) ; Jan, 



Menoo sist. Ofid. p. 84 (1863). 

 Chlorophis, Sallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 62 ; Cope, Proc. Ac. 



Philad. 1860, p. 559 ; Thtub. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 49 (1868). 

 Ahffitulla, part., Oiinth. Cat. Col. 8n. p. 151 (1858), and Ann. ^- Mag. 



N. H. (3) xi. 1863, p. 283. 

 Herpetsethiops, Giinth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, p. 27. 



Pig. 8. 



Maxillary and mandible of Chlorophis nataknsis. 



* A snake figured, but not described, by Jan, as from Mozambique, Dendro- 

 phis snbcarinatus, loon. Gta. 32, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1869), perhaps belongs to this 

 genus, but has feebly-keeled dorsal scales and the dentition is represented as 

 isodont. 



