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surface of the head; two postoculars; temporals 2 + 2 or 2 4- 3 

 (i + 2); eight upper labials, third to fifth entering the eye; 

 four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields ; latter as long as or shorter than the posterior; anterior 

 palatine teeth not much larger than the posterior. Scales in 

 19 (17) rows, vertebral row much enlarged; ventrals 202 — 245; 

 anal entire; subcaudals 80 — iii. 



Brown or greyish above, with two alternating series of 

 round dark brown spots; on each side a series of smaller spots; 

 two black bands on the head, diverging behind, a black streak 

 from the eye to the corner of the mouth. Lower surface white, 

 spotted with brown or marbled; along each side a row of 

 brown spots. Length of head and body 585 mm.; tail 16$ mm, 



N o m. i n d i g. Ular puspo kadjang (mal.); oraj bedudak (sund.). 



Habitat: Sumatra; Java (Buitenzorg, Depok, Semarang!, 

 Salatiga!, Ambarawa, Mount Wilis 5000 feet, Kediri I, Tengger 

 Mts. 1200 M., Pasuruan); Borneo (Bandjermassin); Celebes 

 (Minahassa). — Penang; Malay Peninsula; Siani; Burma; Indo 

 China; S. China. 



2. Dipsadomorphus drapiezii (Boie). 



Dipsas drapiezii^ Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 559. 



Dipsadomorphus drapiezii^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 74. 



Eye as long as snout; rostral more broad than deep, just 

 visible from above; internasals shorter than the praefrontals ; 

 frontal as long as its distance from the tip of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals; loreal small or absent; a praeocular, in 

 contact with the frontal or narrowly separated from it; two 

 postoculars; temporals 2 + 2, 2 + 3 or 3 + 3; eight upper 

 labials, third to fifth or fourth and fifth entering the eye; five 

 or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; 

 latter as long as or longer than the posterior; anterior palatine 

 teeth not much enlarged. Scales in 19 rows, vertebrals enlarged; 

 ventrals 250 — 276; anal entire; subcaudals 114 — 163. 



Light brown above with dark brown transverse spots or 

 brown with yellow or red, dark-edged transverse bands, each 

 band ending in a white spot. Lower surface brownish-white, 

 uniform or speckled with brown and with two brown longi- 

 tudinal lines, sometimes indistinct. Total length 1524 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Labuan, Deli!, Indragiri, Djambi!, 



