121. CALAMARIA. 349 



A. Lower parts uniform yellowish, with a dark line along the tail. 



a. Hgi-. (V. 141 ; C. 13). ? Gen. Hardwicke [0.1. 



6-c. $ (V. 182; 0.14) & Pegu. W.Theobald, Esq. [P.]. 



yg. (V.176; C. 25): 



"B. Yentrals and subcaudals obscured with brown mottlings, or 

 brown with light borders. 



a. S (V. 152 ; C. 20). Siam. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



b, c. c? (V. 155 ; 0. 21) Lao Mountains. M. Mouhot [C.]. 

 & ? (V. 180 ; C. 13). (Tvpes of C. siamemis.) 



d. <S (V. 160 ; C. 22). North Chin lulls,' E. Y. Watson, Esq. [P. 



Upper Burma. 



30. Calamaria septentrionalis. (Plate XX. fig. 1.) 



Calamaria quadrimaculata {nonD. 4' £.), Giinth. Ann. Sf Mag. N. U. 



(6) i. 1888, p. 165. 

 septentrionalis, Boideng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 34. 



Eostral broader than deep, not or hardly visible from above ; 

 frontal as broad as long, shorter than the parietals, about twice and 

 a half to three times as broad as the supraocular; one prce- and one 

 postocular ; the diameter of the eye nearly equal to 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 148-177 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 9-17. Tail 

 rounded at the end. Blackish brown above, with three longitudinal 

 series of small black spots ; each scale of the outer row with a 

 whitish spot ; a yellow nuchal collar, interrupted in the middle, and 

 a pair of yellow spots at the base of the tail ; lower parts uniform 

 coral-red, with a black lino along the middle of the tail. 



Total length 300 millim. ; tail 13-22. 



China. 



a-d, e, f. c? (V. 161, Mountains North A. E. Pratt, Esq."^ 

 159, 148 ; C. 17, 16, of Kiukiang. [C.]. | 



15) & 5 (V. 171, 172, WTvues^ 



176; C. 9, 10, 9). r(iypes.) 



ff. Yg. (V. 176; C. 10). Hong Kong. H.M.S. 'Chal- 



lenger.' J 



A. $ (V. 174; C.9). Mainland opposite J. J. Walker, Esq. [P.]. 

 Chusan Archi- 

 pelago. 

 i. Hgr. (V. 177; C. 10). Chusan Archipel- J. J. Walker, Esq. [P.]. 

 ago. 



31. Calamaria melanota. 



Calamaria hnnjei, vars. melanota ei gastrogramma, Jan, Arch. Zool. 

 Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 5, pi. v., and Icon. Gen. 10, pi. i. tigs. 4 & 6 

 (1865). 



