. The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Snakes. 100 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS The genus is confined to the Philippines. The record of Dume- ril and Bibron for Java is doubtless an error.* Tlie first species appears to be confined to the southern part of Luzon, Samar, and Mindanao; the second, to northern and central Luzon. OXYRHABDIUM MODESTUM (Dumeril and Bibron) Stenognath-as modestus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 7 () 504; Petees, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1861) 684; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. 2 (1862) 28; Icon. Gen. (1865) 13, pi. 1, fig. 3. Rhabdosoma leporinum, part., Guntheb, Cat. C
. The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Snakes. 100 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS The genus is confined to the Philippines. The record of Dume- ril and Bibron for Java is doubtless an error.* Tlie first species appears to be confined to the southern part of Luzon, Samar, and Mindanao; the second, to northern and central Luzon. OXYRHABDIUM MODESTUM (Dumeril and Bibron) Stenognath-as modestus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 7 () 504; Petees, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1861) 684; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. 2 (1862) 28; Icon. Gen. (1865) 13, pi. 1, fig. 3. Rhabdosoma leporinum, part., Guntheb, Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mus. (1858) 12; F. Muller, III. Nacht. Cat. Herp. Samml. Basel Mus. (1883) 12. Stenognathus modestus, part., GUNTHER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1873) 169. Rhabdosoma modestum, part., GtJNTHEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1879) 77. Geophis schadenhergi Fischer, Jahrb. wiss. Anst. Hamburg 2 (1885) 93, pi. 3, fig. 4; BoETTGEK, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 106. Geophis modestus, part., BoETTGEE, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 106. Oxyrhabdmm modestum Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. 1 (1898) 302; Griffin, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 258. Description^ of species.— (From No. 3, E. H. Taylor collection; collected at Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao, August 12, 1913, by E. H. Taylor.) (Adult female.) Rostral small, higher than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Taylor, Edward Harrison, 1889-1978. Manila, Bureau of Printing
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