103. ABLABKS. 279 



labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 1 5 rows, with a very feeble 

 keel along- their anterior halt. Ventrals 174-192 ; anal divided ; 

 siibcaudals 70-82. Olive above, the scales lij^hter in the centre ; 

 the lower scale on each side yellowish, margined with olive or black ; 

 young with dark spots anteriorly and four dark longitudinal bands 

 on the hinder half of the body, which disappear or become rather 

 indistinct in the adult ; upper lip and lower parts uniform 

 yellowish. 



Total length 770 millim. ; tail 160, 



Loo Choo Islands and Japan. 



a-e. cS (V. 190, 190, 190; Loo Choo Ids. H. Pryer, Esq. [P.]. 

 C. 82, 76, ?) & 2 (V. 192, 

 187 ; U. 70, 72). 

 /. Yg. (Y. 185 ; C. 76). Great Loo Choo Mr. Hoist [C.]. 



Island. 

 g. Yg. (V. 174 ; C. 74). Nagasaki. Mr. Whitely [C.]. 



(Type of C. nebulostis.) 



2. Ablabes major. 



Cyclophis major, Giinth. Cat. p. 120 (1858), and Rept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 230, pi. xvii. fig. I (1864). 

 Herpetodryas chloiis, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philnd. 1860, p. 503. 

 Ablabes major, Boettg. Ber. Senckenb. Ges. 1894, p. 140. 



Rostral as deep as broad or a little broader than deep, just 

 visible from above ; nasal divided ; eye about two thirds the length 

 of the snout; suture between the internasals shorter than that 

 between the prsefrontals ; frontal as long as or a little longer than 

 its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal longer than deep ; one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 

 1+2; eight upper labials, fourth and tifth entering the eye; four 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 broader and a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 1.5 rows. 

 Ventrals 103-177; anal divided; subcaudals 70-87. Uniform 

 green above, yellow beneath. 



Total length 960 millim. ; tail 250. 



China. 



rt. 2 (Y. 103; C. 71). NearNingpo. (Tvpe ) 



b. 2(Y. 170; C. 82). Chusan Archipelago. J . J . Walker, Esq. [P.] 



c. (J (V. 164; C. 79). Sliaugbai. R. Swiuhoe, Esq. [ C ^ 

 d-e. 5 (V. 170; C. 87) & Mountains North of A. E. Pratt, Esq. [C 



yg. (Y. 166; C. 82). Kiu Kiang. 



/-«. 2 (V. 170, 168, 176, Island of Formosa. R. Swiuhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



171 ; C. 86, 86, 85, 83). 

 k-m. 2 (V. 168, 171, 160 ; China. 



C. 70, 76, 77). 



3. Ablabes dorise. 



Cvclophlops dorife, Bouleiiy. Ann. Mus. Getwra, (2) vi. 1888. p. 599, 

 'pi. vi. Og. 1. 



