90 



eye; five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields; latter shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, 

 all strongly keeled; ventrals 140 — 176; anal divided; sub- 

 caudals 56 — 94. 



Brown or olive-green above, usually with yellow spots or 

 transverse bars on each side of the back; the skin between 

 the scales sometimes red; upper labials yellow with black sutures, 

 the yellow colour continued as an angular or crescentic band 

 on the nape. Young specimens with black transverse bars or 

 black-spotted. Lower surface yellow, sometimes black-dotted 

 and with black spots along each side. Length of head and 

 body 575 mm.; tail 191 mm. 



Habitat: Simalur!; Nias!; Mentawei Islands (Sipora); Su- 

 matra (Atjeh, Bindjey, Bringin!, Labuan, Battak Highlands 

 800 — 1000 M., Pagarkaja in Palembang, Kaju tanam!, Mt. 

 Singalang, Kalung!, Fort de Kock!, Padang 1500 — 3000 feet, 

 Agam); Java (Batavia, Mt. Salak, Sukabumi!, Tjibodas 1425 M.!, 

 Mt. Wilis 5000 feet, Wonosobo, Salatiga!, Tengger Mts. 

 1200 M., Prigan 1800 — 2300 feet); Flores!; Borneo! (Sandakan 

 Bay, Kina Balu, Mt. Dulit, Sarawak, Kuching, Rejang river, 

 Bandjermassin); Celebes!; Ternate ^). — Penang; Malay Penin- 

 sula; Siam; Burma; S.China; E.Himalayas; Palawan; Balabac. 



24. Tropidonotus maculatus Edeling. 



Tropidonotiis inacu/atiis^ Edeling, Nederl. Tijdsclir. Dierk. II 1864, p. 203. 



Tropidonotus viaculatns^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 260 (s. syn.). 



Natrix inaculata^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 112. 



Eye very large; rostral scarcely visible from above; inter- 

 nasals trapezoid, as long as the praefrontals; frontal as long 

 as its distance from the tip of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals; loreal as long as deep or more deep; one prae- and 

 three postoculars; temporals 2 + 3; nine upper labials, fourth 

 to sixth entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields; latter shorter than the posterior. 

 Scales in 19 rows, all strongly keeled; ventrals 140 — 156; anal 

 divided; subcaudals 95 — 117. 



Olive above, with four longitudinal series of small, square, 

 black spots and two of yellowish spots; upper labials yellow 

 with black sutures. Lower surface yellow, the shields edged 



i) See A. B. Meyer, Abh. Dresden 1886/87 p. 10. 



