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sembles L. pictus, but its power of compressing and expanding the 

 forepart of the body is somewhat limited. 



This species appears somewhat to approach to Leptophis formosus, 

 (Dendrophis formosa, Schlegel,) but besides other distinguishing cha- 

 racters, it differs from that, and all other Asiatic species in having but 

 13 series of scales. The indifferent figure of Ahcetula caudolineata 

 in Illustrations of Indian Zoology, which appears to be all which has 

 been published concerning this species, has led M. Schlegel to suppose 

 it was intended to represent a Variety of Leptophis pictus, although the 

 black outline of the head is correct. 



Leptophis ornatiis, (Shaw.) 



Syn. — Scheuchzer, T. 606. 



Seba, I. T. 94, Fig. 7--H. T. 7, Fig. 1 ; T. 61, Fig. 2. 



Russell, II. PI. 2, Kalla Jin. 



Coluber ornatus, Shaw. 



Coluber ibiboboca, Daudin. 



Coluber ornatus, Merrem, apml Horsfield : Life of Raffles. 



Chrysopelea paradisi, II. Boie. 



Dendrophis ornata, Schlegel. 



Habit. — Bengal, Ceylon. 



Var. 



Syn.— Ular Chindi, Raffles. 



Dendrophis chrysochloros, Rcinwardt, (young.) 



Head above intense velvety black, with three or four distant trans- 

 versal bands, and numerous irregular spots of gamboge or sulphur 

 colour ; all the scales with an oval gamboge spot ; from the hind head 

 to the point of the tail a number of large rounded vermilion spots ; 

 lips, throat and abdominal surface greenish-gamboge, scuta and scutel- 

 la with black margins. Iris and tongue black. 



Scuta 198 to 236- Scutella 113 to 1 17. 



Young. Head, trunk and tail above greenish olive, with a scries of 

 transversal black bands in pairs ; the intervals between the bands ver- 

 milion ; the sides with numerous distant, irregular, small black spots ; 

 lateral part of the scuta and scutella white, the ridge and the anterior 

 margin black ; the centre part pale greenish yellow ; scutella partially 

 edged with black, and with a central light blue line. Tongue vermi- 

 lion, the forked part black. 

 Habit. — Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 



Java, Sumatra, Tenasserim, Arraean. 



