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Colour, lead brown above, yellowish white beneath ; labials, tem- 

 porals, and side of neck bright yellow. 

 Several specimens from Katow. 



Family DENDROPHITLE. 



6. — Dendrophis breviceps. 



Body elongate, with the ventral shields moderately keeled ; 

 head rather short and broadly rounded before the eyes ; loreal 

 shield a little longer than high ; eight upper labials, the 6th 

 almost surrounded above by the 5 th and 7th shields ; lower labials, 

 9 ; scales in 13 rows anteriorly and 11 posteriorly ; abdominal 

 shields, 197 ; sub-caudals, 145-145 ; anal plate bifid. Total 

 length, 4 feet. Length of tail, 16 inches ; head, 1 inch. Colour, 

 olive green above, beneath yellowish white. 



This species may be distinguished from D. jpunctulata by its 

 shorter and blunter head and more slender form, as also by the 

 squarer form of the loreal shield, the greater number and 

 different disposition of the upper labial shields, and by the differ- 

 ence in the relative length of the tail, and in the numbers of the 

 abdominal and subcaudal shields. 



Three specimens were procured at Katow. 



7. — Dendrophis Katowensis. 



Very elongate, narrow, and strongly keeled on the ventral 

 shields ; head flat, with constricted neck ; loreal shield thrice as 

 long as high ; upper labials 8, lower 8 ; scales in thirteen rows 

 anteriorly and eleven posteriorly ; abdominal shields, 189 ; sub- 

 caudals, 135-135 ; anal bifid ; total length, 3 feet 8 inches ; tail, 

 15 inches ; colour, pale olive above, whitish beneath, with the 

 labial shields yellow and a black stripe from the upper part of 

 the rostral shield through the loreal and temporals along the side 

 of the neck for two or more inches behind the head. This black 

 mark is narrow on the head, but on the neck has the width of 

 four scales. 



This species has a considerable resemblance to a Dendrophis 

 which I received some years ago from the Endeavour River, and 



