I/O 



long than broad, nearly three times as broad as a supraocular, 

 much shorter than the parietals; no praeocular; one postocular; 

 five upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, fifth 

 longest; first lower labial in contact with its fellow behind the 

 mental; posterior chin-shields posteriorly separated by a scale. 

 Scales in 13 rows; ventrals 187 — 194; anal entire; sub- 

 caudals 14 — 16. 



Light brown above; scales with dark borders; a vertebral 

 row of elongate black spots and on each side two dark brown 

 longitudinal stripes, the lower covering the two outer rows of 

 scales; ventral part of the outer row whitish; head brown, 

 white-speckled behind the eyes; lips light, this colour continued 

 on the temporal region; base of tail with a light, sometimes 

 interrupted transverse band. Lower surface light, with or 

 without irregular dark dots along the median line; outer ends 

 of the ventrals dark brown; anal brown. Length of head 

 and body 200 mm.; tail 10 mm. 



Type-specimen received from the Basle Museum, examined. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Indragiri !). 



34. Calamaria picteti Peracca. 



Calainaria Picteti^ Peracca, Revue Suisse Zool. VII 1900, p. 325, pi. 14, 

 fig- 1—3- 



Diameter of the eye shorter than its distance from the mouth; 

 rostral as broad as deep; frontal as broad as long, four times 

 as broad as a supraocular, shorter than the parietals; one 

 prae- and one postocular; six upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye, fifth largest; first lower labial in contact with 

 its fellow behind the mental; both pairs of chin-shields in 

 contact, the anterior nearly twice as long as the posterior. 

 Scales in 13 rows; ventrals 157; anal entire; subcaudals 22. 

 Tail obtuse. 



Light brown above, darker on the head, with 31 black 

 transverse spots on the back, largest anteriorly and some white 

 scales; tail with 3 — 6 black spots, more or less confluent; 

 upper lip with small black spots, a larger one on the fourth 

 and fifth labials; irregular spots on the temporal region; flanks 

 with a black line, formed by small black spots, anteriorly 

 between the ventrals and the outer row of scales, posteriorly 

 between the two outer rows. Lower surface dirty white. Length 



