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with light borders to the shields; usually a dark line along 

 the tail. Length of head and body 305 mm.; tail 15 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Labuan); Java (Buitenzorg). — Penang; 

 Malay Peninsula; S. China; Siam; Burma. 



46. Calamaria melanota Jan. 



Calamaria linnaei vars. melanota and gastrogramma^ Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. 



Phys. II 1862, p. 5, pi. V. 

 Calamaria melanota^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. II 1894, p. 349. 



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

 rostral as deep as broad; frontal as broad as long, three or 

 four times as broad as a supraocular, shorter than the parietals; 

 one prae- and one postocular; four upper labials, second and 

 third entering the eye, second and fourth largest; mental and 

 three lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; 

 both pairs of chin-shields in contact. Scales in 13 rows; ventrals 

 133 — 182; anal entire; subcaudals 16 — 24. Tail ending in a point. 



Black above, the scales lighter in the centre; lateral scales 

 white, black-edged. Lower surface white, the shields with 

 black edges. Length of head and body 210 mm.; tail 30 mm. 



Habitat: Java; S. E. Borneo! (Tandjong). 



47. Calamaria lowi Boulenger. 



Calamaria lovii, Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (5) XIX 1887, p. 196; Cat. Sn. 

 II 1894, p. 350, pi XIX, fig. 4. 



Diameter of the eye about half its distance from the mouth; 

 rostral almost as deep as broad; frontal as broad as long, 

 three times as broad as a supraocular, shorter than the parietals; 

 no praeocular; one postocular; four upper labials, third entering 

 the eye; mental and three lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields ; both pairs of chin-shields in contact. 

 Scales in 13 rows; ventrals 203 — 236; anal entire; subcaudals 

 14 — 22. Tail obtuse. 



Dark brown or plumbeous above, with light dots in longi- 

 tudinal series; upper lip yellowish; anterior part of body with 

 a lateral series of large, yellow spots and a few spots on the 

 tail. Lower surface uniformly blackish with a yellow transverse 

 bar above the vent or blotched with dark brown and yellow. 

 Length of head and body 243 mm.; tail 22 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Baram, Rejang and Niah rivers!). 



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