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than deep, visible from above; internasals as long as or longer 

 than the praefrontals; frontal as long as its distance from the 

 rostral or the tip of the snout, usually shorter than the parietals; 

 loreal much more long than deep; one prae- and two (three) 

 postoculars; temporals 2 + 2 or 1+2; eight or nine upper 

 labials, fourth and fifth or fifth and sixth entering the eye; 

 five (four) lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; 

 latter much shorter than the posterior. Scales in 13 rows, the 

 vertebrals as large as the outer; ventrals 174 — 21 1; anal 

 divided; subcaudals 118 — 155. 



Bronze, olive, green or black above, the scales often black- 

 or yellow-edged ; anterior dorsal region sometimes tinged with 

 vermilion and the scales of the vertebral row yellow ; a black 

 streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye and 

 often meeting its fellow on the rostral, extending to the neck, 

 were it may break up into spots; upper lip yellow. Lower 

 surface pale olive, sometimes speckled with dark, or yellow, 

 greenish or blackish ; throat yellow. Length of head and body 

 840 mm.; tail 430 mm. 



Habitat: Ternate; Halmahera; Waigeu !; Batanta ; Sala- 

 watti ; Timor Laut; Kei Islands; Aru Islands; New Guinea 

 (Jobi, Mafoor, Sorong, Fak Fak, Mt. Arfak, Kapaor, Andai, 

 Mansinam !, Amberbaki, Mt. Epa, Supiori, Tjintan Bay, Mawes, 

 Matterer Bay, Sermowai river!, Humboldt Bay!, Mimika and 

 Utakwa rivers 3000 feet, Lorentz river !, Fly river, Inawi, Hula, 

 Bara Bara, Aleya, Fife Bay ! (types of Dendrelaphis schlenckeri 

 Ogilby), Dinawa, Stephansort, Bogadjim, Bongu, Erima, Berlin- 

 hafen, Simbang, Germaniabucht) ; Valise Island; Schouten 

 Islands (Mysore). — d' Entrecasteaux and Louisiade Archipelago; 

 Solomon Islands; Bismarck Archipelago; Islands of Torres 

 Straits ; Queensland. 



3. Dendrophis lorentzi Lidth. 



Dendrophis lorentzi^ v. Lidlli dc Jeiide, Nova Guinea, Vol. IX Zoolog, 191 1, 

 p. 274, Taf. VIIT, fig. 2. 



Maxillary teeth 22; eye as long as its distance from the 

 posterior border of the nostril. Rostral more broad than deep, 

 visible from above; internasals about as long as the prae- 

 frontals; frontal longer than its distance from the tip of the 

 snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal about twice as long 



