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Bronze above; head, nape and tail almost black; upper lip 

 yellow; a black line passing through the eye. Lower surface 

 yellowish, with numerous black dots and spots; throat yellow. 

 Length of head and body 700 mm.; tail 420 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: N. W. New Guinea!. 



7. Dendrophis lineolatus Hombr. & J acq. 



Dendrophis lineolata^ Hombr. & Jacq., Voy. Pole Sud. Zool. Ill Rept. 1842, 



p. 20, pi. II, fig. I. 

 Dendrophis lineolatus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. II 1894, p. 85 (s. syn.). 



Maxillary teeth 27 — 32; eye very large, as large as its distance 

 from the centre or the anterior border of the nostril. Rostral 

 more broad than deep, just visible from above; internasals as 

 long as or longer than the praefrontals; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the tip of the snout, as long as or shorter than 

 the parietals; loreal more long than deep; one prae- and two 

 postoculars ; temporals 2 -f 2, 1+2 or i + i ; eight or nine 

 upper labials, fourth and fifth or fifth and sixth entering the 

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

 latter much shorter than the posterior. Scales in 13 rows, 

 vertebrals as large as outer; ventrals 172 — 203; anal divided; 

 subcaudals 131 — 159. 



Olive above, with black-edged scales; some of the lateral scales 

 with yellowish or white outer border ; body often with black, 

 oblique bars anteriorly; head dark; upper lip yellow. Lower 

 surface greenish or greyish-olive with yellow keels; throat and 

 neck below yellow; a black streak along the middle of the 

 tail. Length of head and body 1250 mm.; tail 570 mm. 



Habitat: Aru Islands; Misol; Waigeu !; New Guinea (Jobi, 

 Mafoor, Passim, Haas, Amberbaki, Mt. Karon, lake Sentani!, 

 Koime river!, Humboldt Bay!, Tana, Kaiserin- Augusta river, 

 Mimika and Setekwa rivers, Lorentz river, Merauke, Fly river, 

 Haveri, Bara Bara, Aleya, Astrolabe Bay) ; Schouten Islands 

 (Mysore). — Pelew Islands; Bismarck Archipelago; Ferguson 

 & Woodlark Islands. 



var. elegans D. Ogilby. 



Dendrophis elegans^ Douglas Ogilby, Record Austr. Mus. I 1890, p. 1 94. 

 Dendrophis elegans^ v. Lidth de Jeude, Nova Guinea Vol. IX Zool. I9ii,p. 275, 

 Taf. VIII, fig. I. 



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