78 COLUBEID^. 



II. Maxillary teeth 27 to 33 ; eye usually longer than its distance 

 from the nostril. 



A. Scales in 15 rows. 



Two postoculars ; vertebral scales scarcely 



enlarged on the anterior part of the 



body ; ventrals 174-188 5. grandoculis, p. 84. 



Usually three postoculars ; vertebral 



scales very strongly enlarged ; ventrals 



179-205 6. formosus, p. 84. 



B. Scales in 13 rows. 



Two postoculars ; ventrals 149-161 ; 



subcaudals 124-128 7. caudolineolatus, p. 85. 



Two postoculars ; ventrals 173-203 ; 



subcaudals 131-151 8. Uneolatus, p. 85. 



Three postoculars; ventrals 162; sub- 

 caudals' 148 9. gastrostictus, p. 86. 



1. Lendrophis pictus. 

 ? Coluber ahsetulla, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 35, pi. xxii. fig. 3 



(1754). 

 ? Coluber ahsetulla, part., Linn. S. N. i. p. 387 (1766). 

 ? Natrix ahfetulla, Lanr. Syn. Rept. p. 79 (1768). 

 Coluber pictus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1116 (1788). 



decorus, Skaw, Zool. iii. p. 538 (1802). 



Dipsas schokari, part., KiM, Beitr. Zool. vergl. Anat. p. 80 (1820). 

 AhffituUa decorus, Gray, Ann. Phil. x. 1825, p. 208. 

 Leptopbis ahsetulla, part.. Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 1825, p. 328. 

 Dendi-ophis picta, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 530 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beny. xxxix. 1870, p. 193. 

 ? Dendrophis polycbroa, Boie, I. c. 



AbffituUa bellii. Gray, III. Lid. Zool. ii. pi. Ixxx. (1834). 

 Dendrophis pictus, part., SMey. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 228, pl. ix. figs. 5-7 



(1837); Dum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 197 (1854); Girard, U.S. Explor. 



Exped., Herp. p. 129 (1858) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 148 (1858), and Rept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 297 (1864) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 32, pl. i. fig. 3 (1869) ; 



Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 190 (1876) ; Bouleny. Faun. Ind., 



Rept. p. 3.37 (1890). 

 Leptopbis pictus, Cantor, Cat. 3£al. Rept. p. 82 (1847). 

 Ahffitulla picta, part., Cojie, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 556. 

 Dendrophis picta, var. andamanensis, Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 



p. 184. 

 Leptopbis formosus, Jan, Ico7i. Gen. 49, pl. vi. fig. 2 (1879). 



Maxillary teeth 23 to 26. Ej^e as long as its distance from the 

 nostril. Rostral much broader than deep, visible from above; 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than the prefrontals ; 

 frontal once and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal elongate (in one specimen 

 divided into two, in another fused with the prseirontal) ; one prse- 

 and two postoculars; temporals 2 + 2, rarely 1 + 1 or 1 + 2; nine 



