262 



larger than the posterior, which are separated by a scale. 

 Scales in 15 rows; ventrals 207; anal divided; subcaudals 27. 

 Tail ending in a pointed scale, which is keeled above. 



Dark brown above, with irregular whitish blotches; upper 

 lip white. Lower surface white. Length of head and body 

 860 mm.; tail 80 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: S. New Guinea (Setekwa river!). 



4. Apistocalamus lonnbergi Boulenger. 



Apisiocalainus loennber^ii^ Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (8)1 1908, p. 248; Transact. 

 Zool. Soc. XX 1914 pi. XXX, fig. 4. 



Snout short, broadly rounded. Rostral slightly more broad 



than deep, visible from above; posterior nasal in contact with 



or narrowly separated from the praeocular; internasals about 



half as long as the praefrontals; frontal as long as or shorter 



than its distance from the tip of the snout, much shorter than 



the parietals; one prae- and one postocular 



(rarely two); temporals i + i or 2; six upper 



labials (seven), third and fourth (third to fifth) 



entering the eye, last largest; three or four 



lower labials in contact with the anterior 



chin-shields; latter as large as the posterior, 



which are sometimes separated by a scale. 



Scales in 15 rows; ventrals 199 — 218; anal 



divided; subcaudals 22 — 32. Tail ending in a 



pointed scale, which is keeled above. pig 104. Apistocaia- 



Dark olive-brown above; scales of the sides "'"^ lonnbergi Blgr. 

 .,, 11 • u i- 1- 11 • u After Boulenger. 



With yellowish centre; upper lip yellowish; 

 a yellow collar and a yellowish spot on each parietal may be 

 present. Lower surface uniformly yellowish. Length of head and 

 body 550 mm.; tail 40 mm. 



Type-specimens examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea (North of Fak Fak 1700 feet!, 

 German New Guinea). 



66. Pseudapistocalamus Lonnberg. 



(LoNNBEKG, Ann. Hist. (7) VI p. 578, 1900). 



Head small, depressed, hardly distinct from neck; eye very 

 small; pupil round; nostril in a single nasal, the margin of 



