The Genus “Simotes” of Snakes

Abstract

IN the report of the Committee appointed by the British Association for the investigation of Timor Laut, given in at Southport during the recent meeting, I find that among the snakes discovered by me one has been described as a new species of Simotes, and is noted as being of “special interest, as no species of the genus had hitherto been previously known to occur eastward of Java”. In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for the year 1864, p. 180, a species of Simotes, S. australis, was described by Gerard Krefft, from Port Curtis, Australia, as being “the first Simotes discovered in Australia”.