64 COLUBEIDJE. 



which is but little broader than deep, and the shorter posterior 

 chin-shields, which are not or but slightly longer than the anterior. 

 Yentrals 239-243 ; anal entire ; snbcaudals 107-108. Brown above, 

 darker along the back, uniforai or with black spots disposed in 

 longitudinal series on the anterior part of the body ; a short dark 

 streak behind the eye ; lower parts yellowish, spotted with pale 

 brown posteriorly. 



Total length 1420 millim. ; tail 310. 



Eugano Island, S.W. Sumatra. 



39. Coluber subradiatus. 



Coluber subradiatus, Schleg. Pki/s. Seyp. ii. p. 136 (1837), and 

 Ahbild. p. 101, pis. xxviii. figs. 7 & 8, andpl. xxix. (1840). 



Compsosoma subradiatum, Dum. Sf Bihr. vii. p. 297 (1854). 



Elaphis subradiatus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 95 (1868). 



. nyctenurus, Jan, Elenco, p. 61 (1863). 



subradiatus, Van Lidth de Jeude, in M. IVeber, Zool. Ergebn. 



p. 184 (1890). 



K'early allied to 0. radiatns, but differing in the following points : — 

 Eostral much broader than deep ; a subocular below the ocular ; 

 fifth and sixth labials entering the eye ; anterior chin-shields 

 much shorter than the posterior ; scales in 23 or 25 rows (25 or 

 27 on the neck). Ventrals 228-242 ; anal entire ; snbcaudals 

 80-100. Pale reddish brown above, with a pair of black stripes 

 along each side of the anterior half of the body ; these stripes may 

 be broken up into series of spots ; a short black streak behind the 

 eye ; lower parts uniform yellowish. 



Total length 1250 millim. ; tail 2G0. 



Timor, Flores. 



a. d" (Sc. 23; V. 233; C. Timor. Leyden Museum. 

 9.3). (One of the types.) 



b. Yg. (Sc. 23 ; V. 230 ; ? Dr. Bleeker. 



C. 96). 



40. Coluber lineaticoUis, 



Arizona lineaticoUis, Cope, Proc. Ac. PMlad. 1861, p. 300. 

 Spilotes lineaticoUis, Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 32, 1887, p. 72. 

 Pituophis lineaticoUis, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 124, pi. xlvii. 

 (1894). 



Eostral broader than deep, visible from above ; internasals broader 

 than long, shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal once and a half as 

 long as broad, as long as its distance from the rostral, a little shorter 

 than the parietals ; lorcal a little longer than deep ; one (or two) 

 prse- and three postoculars ; temporals 24-3 or 4 ; eight or nine 

 upper labials, fourth and fifth, or fourth, fifth, and sixth, entering 

 the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields. Scales in 27 rows, dorsals strongly keeled. Ventrals 244 ; 

 anal entire; snbcaudals 09. Pale brown above; head uuiform ; 



