348 COLUBRID^. 



second and fourth largest, second and third entering the eye; 

 symphysial in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin- 

 shields separated from each other. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 

 181 ; anal entire ; suhcandals 17. End of tail obtuse. Dark 

 brown above, each scale with a lighter dot ; a yellowish collar, 

 interrupted in the middle, some distance behind the head ; ux^per 

 lip and lower parts uniform yellowish. 



Total length 185 millim. ; tail 13. 



Java. 

 a. S (V. 181 ; C. 17). Java. Dr. Ploem [C.J. (Type.) 



28. Calamaria brevis. (Plate XIX. fig. 3.) 

 Calamaria quadrimacidata, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 4 (1858). 



Eostral as deep as broad, well visible from above ; frontal longer 

 than broad, nearly as long as the parietals, once and a half as broad 

 as the supraocular ; one pra3- and one postocular ; diameter of the 

 eye exceeding its distance from the mouth ; four upper labials, 

 second and fourth largest, second and third entering the eye ; first 

 lower labial in contact with its fellow behind the symphysial ; two 

 pairs of chin-shiclda, in contact with each other. Scales in 13 

 rows. Ventrals 134 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 19. End of tail 

 obtuse. Pale brown above, with darker dots ; yellowish interiorly, 

 with a few black spots. 



Total length 125 miUim. ; tail 10. 



Eab. ? 



a. cS (V. 134 ; C. 19). — ? 



29. Calamaria pavimentata. 



Calamaria pavimentata, Uum. ^- Bihr. vii. p. 71 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. 

 Zool. Anat. Phrjs. ii. 1862, p. 7, and Icon. Gen. 10, pi. i. fig. 9 

 (1865) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 282 (1890). 



quadrimaculata, Dum. Sf Bihr. t. c. p. 73 ; Jan, U. cc. fig. 10 ; 



Giinth. Bept. Brit. Lid. p. 197 (1864). 



siamensis, Giinth. I. c. p. 196 ; Theob. Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 140 (1876) ; Boettff. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 1885, p. 121. 



Eostral as deep as broad, well visible from above ; frontal longer 

 than broad, shorter than the parietals, twice and a half as broad as 

 the supraocular ; one prae- and one postocular ; the diameter of the 

 eye nearly equals its distance from the mouth ; four upper labials, 

 second and third 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 140-182 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 13-27. Tail pointed. Keddish brown 

 above, with five dark longitudinal lines or series of spots ; nape 

 dark brown, separated from the back by a yellow coUar ; a pair 

 of yellow spots on the base and another at the end of the tail. 



Total length 320 millim. ; tail 15. 



Java, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Canton. 



