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with white, a vermilion band at the root of the tail, and in some a 

 similar near the point. 

 Scuta 166, Scutella 17. 



Habit. — Pinang. 



Java. 

 The present variety corresponds in all particulars te the description 

 of C. linnei hy M. Schlegel, who however does not mention that the 

 two or three anterior teeth on each side of the lower jaw are longer 

 than the rest. Of six individuals from the hills of Pinang the largest 

 individual measured 



Length of the head, 0| inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 10£ 



Ditto ditto tail, Of 



1 1 inch. 

 Circumference of the neck f, of the trunk f inch. 



Calamaria longiceps. n. s. (See plate, Fig. 1.) 



Strongly iridescent soot-coloured, a shade lighter beneath ; the scuta 

 and scutella edged with whitish. Eyes and tongue black. 

 Scuta 131, Scutella 26. 



Habit. — Pinang. 



The head is elongated, narrow, conical, the muzzle rounded, project- 

 ing over the lower jaw. The anterior frontals are much smaller than 

 the frontals, which on the sides occupy the place of the absent frenal 

 shield, and thus reach the second upper labial ; the nasal is very 

 small, rectangular, perforated by the rather large nostril near the 

 lower anterior angle. The eye is comparatively large, between an 

 obliquely placed rectangular prse-orbital, and a similar post-orbital 

 shield ; the supra-orbitals are narrow, rectangular ; the vertical mode- 

 rate, pentagonal, arched and somewhat narrowed at the anterior mar- 

 gin. The occipitals, the largest, are elongated, bordered below by the 

 large fifth upper labial, and behind by a single pair of post-occipitals. 

 Each jaw has 5 pairs of labials. Of the 2 pairs of mentals, the ante- 

 rior is the longer, and is enclosed by the rostral and 3 anterior labials, 

 the posterior pair, by the fourth labial. The teeth are minute, sharp, 

 reclining, all of equal size. The trunk is cylindrical, narrowed towards 



