Greene, H. 1997 June 3 (continued) splash - swims rapidly on the surface in a broad arc of x 5m, out by the splash, then returns near shore where I grab it. Snake bites, cloacal discharges, and spins along its entire long axis. Nikolai agrees w/ my hunch that a fair proportion have incomplete tails. Tonight he and the other Russians got Pareas, Lycodon, 2 of the new Dirodon, and his putative new genus - a cat-eyed big snake that looks a lot like Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus, that we are informally calling "Pseudoboiga". I agree it is a dramatically new species and Nikolai says it has different teeth than Boiga. June 4 fight at plots animals in the morning. Still no rain since we arrived! Scattered clouds and thunder some afternoons. Forest seems dry, streambeds are dry except for small pools. Hunters brought in a striped juvenile Sus scrofa, and its meat was excellent. We walked out "old french road" for ~ 3 hrs, and missed a Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus - it was crawling straight in trail toward us and suddenly rapidly escaped