Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 69 



Chesnut or deep purple marbled with white veins, edged with black, 

 with or without a white collar. 



Habit. — Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 



Tenasserim Provinces, Java. 



Var. C. 



Lyn. — Lycodon hebe, Var. timorensis, Scblegel. 



Chestnut, with a white collar, and indistinct traces of white network. 



Habit. — Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 



Pulo Samao, Timor. 



Var. D. 



Syn — Russel II, PI. 39. 



Lydocon subfuscus, Cantor. 



Uniformly light brown above, the lips white, edged with brown. 



II abit. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Bengal. 

 This species occurs in the Malayan countries both in the hills and 

 valleys, but it is apparently not so numerous as it is in Bengal. It is of 

 fierce habits and defends itself vigorously, In one examined the sto- 

 mach contained a young Euprejais mfescens, (Shaw). 



The largest individual observed, Var. li., was of the following 

 dimensions : 



Length of the head, ft. Of inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 1 8f 



Ditto ditto tail, 4± 



2 ft. If inch. 



Circumference of the neck 1 inch, of the trunk If, of the root of the 

 tail f inch 



Ophites. — Wagler differing from Lycodon in the absence of the 

 prse orbital shield ; frenal elongated ; eyes small, scales rhombic with 

 truncated points ; some of the posterior dorsal scales keeled. 



Lycodon platurinus, (Shaw,) 



Syn.— Seba Thes. I, 83, 3. 

 Russel, II, PL 41. 

 Coluber platurinus, Shaw. 

 Coluber platyrhinus, Merrem. 

 Lycodon subcinctus, II . Boie. 

 Ophites, Wagler. 

 Lycodon subcinctus, apud Scblegel. 



