120. PSEUDORnABDIUM. 32? 



eye small, with round pupil ; nostril pierced in a minute nasal ; 

 internasals small; no loreal ; pneociilar small or absent ; no tem- 

 porals, the pariotals in contact with the labials. Body cylindrical ; 

 scales smooth, without apical pits, in 15 rows ; ventrals rounded. 

 Tail short ; subcaudals in two rows. 

 Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



1. Pseudorhabdium longiceps. 



Calamaria longiceps, Cantoi-, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 63, pi. — . fig. 1 



(1847). 

 Rabdion torquatum, Dum. S,- Bibr. vii. p. 119 (1854) ; Peters, Mon. 



Berl. Ac. 1861, p. 684. 

 Pseudorabdiou torquatum, Jan, Areli. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, 



p. 10, and Icon. Gen. 10, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1865). 

 Oxycalamus longiceps, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 199 (1864); 



Stoliczka, Journ. As. Sor. Beng. xlii. 1873, p. 120. 

 Pseudorhabdion longiceps, Bouleng. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (5) xvi. 



1885, p. 389. 



Snout rather pointed. Rostral small, as deep as broad, well 

 visible from above ; suture between the internasals one third or 

 one fourth the length of that between the prsefrontals ; frontal a 

 little longer than broad, as long as or a little shorter than its distance 

 from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals, more than twice 

 as broad as the supraocular ; praeocular small (rarely absent) ; one 

 postocular ; five upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; 

 symphysial in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; three lower 

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

 as large as the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 129-146 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 10-28. Tail pointed. Iridescent brown or 

 black, with or without a yellowish collar ; usually a yellowish 

 vertical spot above the angle of the mouth. 

 Total length 230 millim. ; tail 35 ( S )• 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Celebes. 



Dr. Cantor. (Type.) 

 L. Wray, Esq. [P.J. 



G. E. Dobson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Dennvs [P.]. 

 H. N. Ridley, Esq. [P.]. 

 Prof. Moescii [C.]. 



Hr. Sundermann [C.]. 

 Prof. Peters [P.]. 



2. Pseudorhabdium oxycephalum. 



El oxycephalum, Giinth. Cat. p. 242 (18^ 

 i oxycephalus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Sac. li 



Closely allied to the preceding, but dififering in the following 



Rhabdosoma oxycephalum, Giinth. Cat. p. 242 (1858). 

 O.vycalamus oxycephalus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 168, fig. 



