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caudals 15-28. Tail obtuse. Dark brown or black above, uniform 

 or with yellowish spots, or yellowish with brown spots ; lower parts 

 blackish, uniform or variegated with yellow, or yellow in the middle 

 and black on the sides. 



Total length 440 millim. ; tail 30. 



Sumatra, Java, Celebes. 



A. Dark brown or black above, with yellow spots ; lower parts 



black and yellow. 

 a-b. S (V. 170 ; C. 27) Manado, Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



& 2 (V. 193 ; C. 19). 



B. Dark brown with yellow spots above, uniform black beneath. 



c. 2 (V. 198; C. 15). Java. Dr. Ploem [C.]. 



C. Dark brown above, with small black spots or lines, without 



yellow spots or with only a few on the anterior part of the 

 body ; ventrals yellow in the middle, black on the sides. 



d. 2 C^- 199 ; C. 19). Java. Dr. Ploem [C.]. 

 e-ff, h-i. (S (V. 158, 156, Rarahan, Java. Dr. Beccari [C] ; 



156,163; C. 26,28,26, Marquis G. Doria 



25)&$(V. 183;C. 15). [P.]. 



Z;-/, H2-0. d" (V. 164, 162 ; Mt. Singalang, Dr. Beccari [C] ; 



C. 24, 24) & $ (V. 178, Sumatra. Marquis G. Doria 



174,179; C. 20, 18, 19). [P.]. 



p. $ (V. 196; C. 18). Manado, Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



D. Uniform black above and below. 



q. (J (V. 151; C. 22). Fort de Kock, Dr. Bleeker. 



Sumatra. (Type of C. monochrous.) 



15. Calamaria leucogaster. 



Calamaria leucogaster, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxi. 1860, 

 p. 293 ; Gunth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (3) xv. 1865, p. 89 ; Edelmg, 

 Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Lid. xxxi. 1870, p. 381. 



arcticeps, Gilnth. Ann. Sj Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, p. 25, 



pi. vi. fig. C. 



Snout rather pointed ; rostral as deep as broad, well visible from 

 above ; frontal longer than broad, shorter than the parietals, about 

 twice as broad as the supraocular ; one prse- and one postocular ; 

 diameter of the eye equal to its distance from the mouth ; five 

 upper labials, second larger than first or third, third and fourth 

 entering the eye, or (spec, d) six upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; first pair of lower labials forming a suture behind 

 the symphysial ; two pairs of chin-shields, in contact with each other. 

 Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 133-151 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 14- 

 17. Tail ending in a point. Brown above ; nape blackish, followed 

 by a narrow yeUow collar ; tail with two blackish transverse spots ; 

 uniform yellowish interiorly. 



Total length 200 mUlim. ; taU 13. 



Sumatra, Borneo. 



