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are larger than the posterior; latter separated by scales. 

 Scales in 27 (25) rows; ventrals 140 — 150; anal divided; sub- 

 caudals 37 — 48. 



Olive-brown above, with small yellow or orange spots; one 



Fig. 68. Hypsirhina alboniaculata (D. & B.) X %• ^'^^ ^'i^^ of head. 



or two yellow bars across the nape, sometimes indistinct. Lower 

 surface yellow or orange, black-spotted. Length of head and 

 body 528 mm.; tail 94 mm. 



Habitat: Simalur!; Nias; Sumatra (Padani). 



7. Hypsirhina punctata (Gray). 



Phytolopsis punctata^ Gray, Cat. Sn. 1849, p. 68. 



Hypsirhina punctata. Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 12 (s. syn.). 



Rostral a little more broad than deep; internasal small, 

 single; frontal not broader than the supraocular, as long as 

 its distance from the tip of the snout, as long as or a little 

 shorter than the parietals; one or two loreals, not in contact 



