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I. Cantoria violacea Gir. 



Cantoria violacea^ Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 182. 



Cantoria violacea^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 23 (s. syn.); Rept. Malay 

 Penin. 1912, p. 165, fig. 51. 



Frontal more long than broad, shorter than its distance 

 from the tip of the snout and shorter than the parietals; one 

 prae- and one postocular; one 

 subocular; loreal more long than 

 deep; one long anterior temporal, 

 in contact with the postocular 

 and the subocular; five upper 

 labials, separated from the eye; 

 three lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields. 

 Scales in 19 rows; ventrals 

 260 — 284; anal divided, subcau- 

 dals 52 — 64. 



Black above, with white trans- 

 verse bands, widest towards the 

 belly, narrower than the inter- 

 spaces; head with white spots. 

 Lower surface white, with grey 

 spots, which are a continuation 



of the transverse bands; tail sometimes with complete rings. 

 Total length 1220 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Tandjong Laut in Palembang); Borneo; 

 Timor. — Singapore; Malay Peninsula!; Burma. 



Rare. 



43. Myron Gray. 



(Gr.\y, Cat. Sn. p. 70, 1849). 



Head small, not or slightly distinct from neck; eye very 

 small; pupil vertically elliptic; shields of head large; nasal 

 partly divided, the cleft beginning at the first or second labial; 

 internasal single or double, separating the nasals; loreal present. 

 Maxillary teeth about 10, separated by a short interspace 

 from two enlarged, grooved teeth; anterior mandibular teeth 

 longest. Body round, covered with keeled and striated scales 

 without pits, in 21 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail feebly com- 

 pressed, short; subcaudals in two rows. 



Fig. 72. Cantoria violacea Gir. 

 After Boulenger. 



