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Found on trees; feeds on small mammals, birds, lizards and 

 amphibians. The female brings forth 7 — 12 young ones. 



6. Lachesis puniceus (Boie). 



Cophias punicea^ Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 561. 



Atropophis lortieensi^^ Peters, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva III 1 871, p. 41. 

 Bothrops sandakancnsis^ v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. 1893, p. 256. 

 Lachesis bo7-neensis^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 561. 

 Lachesis puniceus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 560. 



Trimeresurtts puniceus^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 

 1912, p. 140. 



Snout short, truncate, with sharp, raised angle, especially 

 above the nostrils; eye small. Rostral as broad as deep or a 

 little more deep; scales on the head small, smooth ; supraocular 

 narrow or broken up into pointed, erect scales; two pair of 

 internasals; 9 — 14 scales between the supraoculars; two to four 

 postoculars; one or two suboculars, separated from the labials 

 by two or three series of scales; ten to twelve upper labials, 

 sometimes second bordering the labial pit, third largest; first 

 lower labial divided, forming a pair of chin-shields ; temporal 

 scales smooth or obtusely keeled. Scales feebly keeled, in 

 19 — 23 rows; ventrals 144 — 176; anal entire; subcaudals 38 — 65, 

 in two rows; tail prehensile. 



Grey, brown or reddish above, with dark spots, the spots 

 sometimes black-edged and forming a wavy band on the back; 

 a light dark- edged streak on each side of the head behind 

 the eye. Lower surface brown with a series of yellowish spots 

 on each side or speckled with brown; end of tail reddish. 

 Length of head and body 690 mm.; tail 102 mm. 



Nom. indig. Ular gibuk; oraj lemah (sund.); sawah tadung 

 or sawah tadung bisa (Simalur). 



Habitat: Simalur!; Sumatra (Battak Highlands 800 — 1000 M., 

 Padang!); Natuna Islands; Borneo (Pangkalan ampat, Kuching, 

 Baram river, Kidi district, Matang, Paitan, Mt. Dulit, Sandakan 

 Bay!, Samarinda!); Java (Buitenzorg!, Mt. Salak, Sukabumi, 

 Mt. Willis 5000 feet, Tengger Mts. 1200 M.). — Malay Penin- 

 sula 3000 feet. 



7. Lachesis wagleri (Boie). 



Cophias wagleri.^ Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 561. 



Lachesis wagleri^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 562 (s. syn.). 



