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Show 1897.] REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS OF CELEBES. 219 (Beccari collection); a male specimen (V. 125 ; C. 53) was obtained at Buol by the Drs. Sarasin, and a female (V. 142; C. 45) in Southern Celebes, at an altitude of 2000 feet, by Mr. Everett. 47. TROPIDONOTUS TRIANGULIGERUS, Boie. Macassar (Meyer). A single specimen ( S , V. 150 ; C. 72) was collected in Southern Celebes, at an altitude of 2000 feet, by Mr. Everett. 48. TROPIDONOTUS VITTATUS, L. Manado (Meyer). The specimens preserved in the British Museum are apparently referred to T. qulncunclatus in Dr. Meyer's list. 49. TROPIDONOTUS SUBMINIATUS, Schleg. Manado (Meyer). T. manadensls, Gthr. 50. TROPIDONOTUS CHRYSARGOIDES, Gthr. 10 specimens : Bone Valley (E. of Gorontalo), Kema, Tomohon. Manado (Meyer). Manado (Bruljn). The fine series collected by the Drs. Sarasin shows that T. calllstus, Gthr., is nothing but the young of T. chrysargoides, the short head and brilliant coloration of the former being juvenile characters which gradually disappear wdth age. Two to four postoculars; temporals 2 + 2 or 2 + 3; eight or nine upper labials, fourth and fifth, fifth and sixth, or fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye. Ventrals 148-160 ; subcaudals 70-85. 51. LYCODON AULICUS, L. A single specimen from Macassar. Macassar (Meyer). Tempe (Weber). 52. LYCODON STORMI, Bttgr. (Plate XII. fig. 3.) Head strongly depressed; eye small. Bostral broader than deep, just visible from above; internasals much shorter than the praefrontals, which are longer than broad ; frontal once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the rostral or the tip of the snout, much shorter than the parietals ; loreal a little longer than deep, not entering the eye, not touching the internasal; one praeocular, not reaching the frontal; two postoculars (the upper. in one specimen, fused with the supraocular); temporals small, 1 + 3 + 4, or 3 + 4 + 4; eight or nine upper labials, third and fourth or third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, wdiich are longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 19 rows. Ventrals 217-231, angulate laterally; anal entire ; subcaudals 73-78, all single. Slate-colour or dark brown, with whitish annuli speckled with black, the wdiite most marked on the lower surface ; 23 annuli on the body. Total length 720 millim.; tail 135. The type specimen, described by Boettger, came from Celebes. Two specimens from Buol are in the Drs. Sarasin's collection. |