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DIPSAS. 

 D. CYNODON, Olivier. 



Scales 28. Ventrals 275-287, subc. 141-162. Anterior 



palatine and mandibulary teeth enlarged. Brown; dotted 



with black, and with rhombic black cross-bands ; or reddish 



olive, with a vertebral series of large black ocellate spots. 



Burma, Straits. 



D. FORSTENi, D. and B. 



Scales 25-27. Ventrals 260-275, subc. 106-131. Teeth 

 as in the preceding. Brownish olive, with black fasciolated 

 cross-bands ; median and lateral black head stripes. 

 Anamullaj^s ; very rare. 



. [The anterior palatine and mandibulary teeth of the following 

 species are but little enlarged if at all.] 



D. BOOPS, GtliV. 



Scales 21. Ventrals 265, subc. 160. Eye very laro-e. 

 Keddish olive, spotted with black and brown in transverse 

 and longitudinal bands ; belly marbled witii purple. 

 Bengal, Straits ; rare. 



D. DENDROPHILA, Reimv. 



Scales 21. Ventrals 211-229, subc. 90-112. Black, irides- 

 cent, with numerous narrow yellow cross-bands ; throat 

 yellow ; belly black, or marbled with black. 

 Straits. 



D. BUBALiNA, Klein, 



Scales 21. Ventrals 249-252. Green above, orreenish 

 olive below ; black interstitial skin. 

 China or Assam ; rare. 



D. MULTiMACULATA, ScJikr/el. The Burtuese hroiun tree-snake. 

 Plate XVI, fig. 6. 



Scales 19, sometimes 17. Ventrals 202-245, subc. 80-106. 

 Dark fawn, with a numerous dorsal series of round dark 

 spots with black and white margin ; the spots often have 



