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Brown above, with a few yellowish rings, indistinct in the 

 adult. Lower surface brown. Young specimens with a yellowish 

 streak on each side of the head. Length of head and body 

 530 mm.; tail 170 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Deli); Borneo (Singkawang, BaramI). — 

 Penang; Malay Peninsula. 



Lycodon fasciatus Anders, is recorded from the "Indes Neer- 

 landaises" by Despax (Bull. Mus. d' hist, natur. W. 4 191 2, p. 3). 

 This species normally lives in Burma, Assam and Yunnan, so 

 that the locality above mentioned does not seem probable. 



21. Lepturophis Boulenger. 



(BouLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 183, 1900). 



Head distinct from neck, much depressed; eye moderate; 

 pupil vertically elliptic; nostril very large, between two nasals 

 and the first upper labial. Maxillary teeth 6^6. Body very 

 long and slender, round, covered with strongly keeled scales 

 with pits, the keels finely serrated, in 17 rows; ventrals keeled 

 and notched laterally. Tail very long and slender; subcaudals 

 in two rows. 



Distribution, Borneo. 



A single species. 



I. Lepturophis borneensis Boulenger. 



Leptuiophis borneensis^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 183, pi. XV. 



Snout much depressed, broadly truncate; rostral just visible 



Fig. 48. Lepturophis liorneensis Blgr. After Boulenger. 



from above; internasals scarcely half as long as the praefrontals; 

 frontal as long as the praefrontals, half as long as the parietals; 



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