338 COLUBBID^. 



vii, p. 197 ; Giinth. Kept. B. I. p. 297 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. 



xxxix, 1870, p. 193 ; Jan, Icon. Ophid. 32, pi. i ; Theob. Cat. p. 190. 

 Ahsetula bellii, Gray, III Ind. Zool. ii, pi. Ixxx, fig. 2. 

 Dendrophis boii, Cantor, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 53. 

 Leptophis pictus, Cantor, J. A. S. B. xvi, 1847, p. 930. 

 Dendrophis picta, var. andamanensis, Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 184. 

 Dendrophis picta, part., Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 824. 



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

 than long, visible from above, upper border forming an obtuse 

 angle; suture between the internasals as long as that between 

 the prasfrontals or a little longer ; frontal as long as its distance 

 from the end of tbe snout, as long as the parietals or shorter ; 

 loreal elongate ; one prseocular ; two or three postoculars ; tem- 

 porals 2+2; 9 or 10 upper labials (rarely 8), fifth and sixth, or 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth, entering the eye ; 5 lower labials in contact 

 \vith the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than tbe posterior. 

 Scales in 15 rows, vertebrals at least as large as outer row. Yen- 

 trals 167-205 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 110-150. Olive or bronze 

 brown above, sometimes with a yellow vertebral band on the front 

 part of the trunk ; outer row of scales yellowisb, between two 

 more or less marked dark streaks ; a black streak on eacb side of the 

 head passing through tbe eye ; upper lip yellow ; lower parts uniform 

 yellowish or pale greenish. 



Total length 4 feet ; tail 14 inches. 



Nab. A widely distributed species, extending from Peninsular 

 India and Ceylon through Bengal, Burma, and Siam to the Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago. 



418. Dendrophis subocularis. 



Dendrophis picta, part., Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 824. 

 Dendrophis subocularis, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genom, (2) vi, 1838, 

 p. 600, pi. vi, fig. 2. 



Differs from D. pictus in having only 8 upper labials, of which 

 the fifth is the largest and alone borders the eye ; in the scales of 

 the vertebral row being but very feebly enlarged and smaller than 

 those of the outer row ; and in the smaller number of caudals. 

 Yentrals 167-177 ; subcaudals 74-105. 



Hob. Bhamo, Upper Burma. 



419. Dendrophis bifrenalis. 

 Deudrophis picta, var. c, Gunth. Cat. Col Sn. p. 149. 



Head more elongate than in D. pictus parietals longer than the 

 frontal ; two loreals ; 9 upper labials, fifth and sixth entering the 

 eye. Scales in 15 rows, vertebrals larger than outer row. Ven- 

 trals 154-171 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 144-155. Coloration 

 like D. pictus, but the whole side of the ventrals above the lateral 

 keel dark olive like the back. 



Total length 3 feet 3 inches ; tail 14-5 inches. 



Hob. Ceylon. Three specimens are in the British Museum. 



