5. DENDRELAPniS. 89 



3. Major Barrett [P.]. 



Haslar Collection. 



2. Dendrelaphis suboculavis. 



Dendrophis picta, part., Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 824 



(1879). 

 subocularis, Bonlenq. Ann. Mus. Gennva, (2) vi. 1888, p- GOO, 



pi. vi. fig. 2, and Faun. Ind., Kept. p. 338 (18y0). 



Eye as long as its distance from the anterior border of the nostril. 

 Rostral a little broader than deep, visible from above; internasals 

 nearly as long as tlie prnefrontals ; frontal once and two thirds as 

 long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 

 a little shorter than the pariotals ; loreal elongate ; one prae- and 

 two postociilars ; temporals 2 + 2 ; eight upper labials, fifth largest 

 and bordering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are much longer than the posterior. Scales in 

 15 rows. Ventrals 167-172 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 74-105. 

 Olive-brown above, upper lip and a lateral streak yellowish white ; 

 an olive-brown stripe between the lateral yellowish streak and the 

 yellowish ventrals, occupying the extremities of the latter shields 

 and the lower half of the outer scales ; a black line behind the eye, 

 above the labials ; auterior labials with black lines on the sutures ; 

 a rather indistinct pale greenish line along the nape, bordered on each 

 side, in the young, bv a series of large round black spots. 



Total length 820 millim. ; tail 220. 



Upper Burma. 



a. Hgr. (V. 167 ; C. 105). Bhamo. M. L. Fea [C.]. 



(One of the types.) 



3. Dendrelaphis caudolineatus, 



Ahaetula caudolineata, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. Ixxxi. (18-34). 

 Leptophis caudalineatus, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 85 (1847). 

 Deudrophis octolineata, Diim. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 201 (1835) ; Jan, Icon. 



Gen. 32, pi. ii. fig. 1 (18(39). 

 caudolineata, Gilnth. Cat. p. 150 (1858), and Rept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 297 (18G4) ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, 



p. 194 ; Giinth. Zool. Rec. 1870, p. 75 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 



Benff. xlii. 1873, p. 123. 

 Dendrelaphis caudohneatus, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 3.39 (1890). 



Snout little longer than the eye, which exceeds its distance from 

 the nostril. Rostral a little broader than deep, visible from above ; 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than the praefrontais ; frontal 

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

 than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal elongate ; one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 

 2 + 2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth (rarely fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth) entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the 



