60. COLUBER. 



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as or a littlo longer than its distance from the end of the snout or 

 from the rostral, shorter than the parietals ; lorcal uot or but 

 slightly longer than deep ; one largo praDocular ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2 + 2 or 2 + 3; nine upper labials, fourth to sixth 

 entering the eye ; five or six lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 

 19 rows (21 on the neck), rather strongly keeled ; all the caudal 

 scales keeled. Ventrals with an obtuse lateral keel, 193-234 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 89-109. Pale brown anteriorly, with a 

 yellow, black-edged vertebral stripe, wliich becomes gradually more 

 and more indistinct towards the hinder part of the body, which, 

 like the tail, is darker brown or black ; a series of black spots on 

 each side of the anterior part of the body, of ocelli with bri<:i;ht 

 yellow centres in the young ; some adult nearly uniform blackish 

 brown ; a black streak below the eye ; an oblique black streak from 

 the eye to the angle of the mouth, and another on the temple and 

 neck. 



Total length 1500 millim. ; tail 380. 



Southern China, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Java, 



a. 6 (V. 214; C. ?). 

 h. Yg. (V. 222; C. 100). 



c. S (V. 217; C. 90). 



d. 2 (V. 219; C. 101). 

 e-f. S (V. 217 ; C. 99) & 



2 (V. 222; C. 100). 

 g. 2 (V. 221 ; C. F). 

 h. Yg. (V. 216 ; C. 10.3). 

 i-k. Yg. (Y. 203, 193; 



C. 89, 90). 

 I. Hgr. (V. 212; C. lOG). 

 m. 2 (V. 230 ; C. 102). 

 n-^. S (V. 206 ; C. 107) 



& yg. (V. 207, 230; 



C. 101, 99). 

 q. 2 (V. 234; C. 107). 

 r. c? (V.208; C. 98). 

 «. Hgr. (V. 221 ; C. 91). 

 t. Skull. 



China. 

 Piuang. 

 Singapore. 

 Sumatra. 

 Deli, Sumatra. 



Nias. 



Borneo. 



Borneo. 



Borneo. 

 Borneo. 

 Rejang R., Sarawak. 



Sarawak, 

 Baram, Borneo. 

 Java. 

 Sarawak. 



— Lindsay, Esq. [P.]. 

 Gen. Hardwieke I P.]. 

 Br. Denuys [P.]. 

 Leyden Museum. 

 Mr. Iversen [C.]. 



Hr. Snndermann [CI. 

 Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 

 L. L. Dillwyn, Esq 



[P.]. 

 Sir J. Brooke [P.]. 

 Sir Hugh Low [P.]. 

 Brooke Low, Esq. [P.] 



A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 

 C. Hose, Esq. [C.j. 



36, Coluber radiatus, 



Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. pi. xlii. (1801). 



Coluber radiatus, Schleg. Tkys. Serp. ii. p. 13.5, pi. v. fio-s. 5 & 6 

 (1837) : Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 73 (1847) ; Boulen'q. Faun 

 Ind., Rept. p. 333 (1890); W. Sclater, Journ. As. Soc. Rem/' 

 Ix. 1891, p. 239. ^ 



quadrifasciatus, Cantor, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 51. 



Tropidonotus quinque, Cantor, I. c. p. 54. 



Conipsosoma rndiatum, Dtim. ^ Ribr. vii. p. 292 (1854) • GUnth 

 Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 243 (1804) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 165 

 (1870) ; Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 815 (1879). 



