298 OPHIDIA. 



the lower postocular. The two or three anterior teeth in both jaws are elongate and much 

 stronger than the following. Light brownish bronze, with two black bands running from a 

 short distance behind the head along the lower part of the side to the tip of the tail. Four- 

 narrower black lines commence on the posterior half of the back, and terminate at the root 

 of the tail, whence commences a single central black band. Pale yellow beneath ; a black 

 line along the middle of the lower surface of the tail. 



This species is found at Pinang, Singapore, and in Borneo, and attains to a length of 5 feet, 

 the tail being one-fourth. 



CHRYSOPELEA, Boie. 



Body and tail very elongate, slender, and compressed ; back rounded ; head 

 depressed, oblong, with the snout obtusely rounded In front. Eye rather 

 large, with round pupil ; nostril lateral, between two nasals. Shields of the 

 head regular (the loreal exceptionally confluent with the frontal) ; upper 

 labials low. Scales not much elongate, rhombic, in fifteen or seventeen 

 rows ; the ventral shields have very sharp lateral keels, and appear to be 

 formed of three pieces, separated by a notch in the hind margin ; the lateral 

 ])ieces are the smaller and erect ; anal bifid. The maxillary is armed with a 

 series of teeth subequal in size, and with a longer posterior tooth, which is 

 grooved ; the anterior mandibulary teeth longer than the others. 



With the exception of one West- African species, the others are East Indian ; one or two 

 of the latter inhabit British India : — 



Scales smooth, in seventeen rows C. ornata. 



Scales smooth, in fifteen rows C. rubescens. 



Chrysopelea oenata. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. i. tab. 2. 



Coluber ornatus, Shaw, Zool. ill. p. 477. 



Chrysopelea omata et Ch. paradisi, Boie, Isis, 1827, pp. 546, 547. 



Dendrophis ornata, Schleg. Phys. Serp. p. 234. pi. 9. figs. 8-10, & Abbild. p. 18. taf. 6. 



Leptophis ornatus. Cantor, Mai. Rept. p. 87. 



Chrysopelea ornata, Dum. £(• Bibr. vii. p. 1042. Gilnth. Catal. Colubr. Snakes, p. 146. 



Dendrophis paradisei. Motley ^ Dillwyn, Labuan, p. 46 c. fig. opt. 



Scales smooth, with two apical grooves, broader on the back than on the sides, in seventeen 



