6o 



1500 — 3000 feet, Agam); Banka ! ; Riou ! ; Natuna Islands 

 Borneo (Bulangan river, Sandakan Bay, Baram river, Mt. Dulit 

 Sebruang Valley, Kuching, Sungei duri, Montrado, Singkawang 

 Sintang, Kapuas river, Kutei, Buntok, Balikpapan, Bandjer 

 massin, Tandjong) ; Java (Batavia, Anjer, Depok, Darok, Bantam 

 Gadok, Buitenzorg!, Sukabumi !, Cheribon !, Pekalongan !, Sala 

 tiga!, Garum!, Ambarawa, Idju!, Kediri !, Ngawi, Surabaja!' 

 Bali; Lombok; Sumbawa; Flores !; Alor; Timor ; Rotti ; Buton 

 Celebes (Manado, Gorontalo, Kema, Kandari); Sangir Islands 

 (Siao); Ternate ; Misol ; Ceram; Ambon!. — Sulu Islands 

 Philippines; Penang; Malay Peninsula; Andamans; Nicobars 

 Siam ; Burma; India. 



A widely distributed and common snake, living on trees, 

 among bushes, often near rice-fields; it feeds on lizards and 

 frogs and is ovoviviparous. 



var. striata Cohn. 



Dendorophis pictus var. striata^ Cohn, Zool. Anz. XXIX 1906, p. 543. 

 Dendrophis pictus var. striata^ de Rooy, in Kleiweg de Zwaan, Cianiolug. 

 Untersuch. Niasischer Schsdel 1 91 5, p. 299, with fig. 



Snout shorter and broader than in the preceding one ; chin- 

 shields short and broad, posterior pair separated by irregular 

 scales in the posterior part. Keel of the ventral shields be- 

 ginning immediately on the throat; ventrals 152 — 163; sub- 

 caudals 103 — 142. 



Light brown above, with black oblique bars from the vertebral 

 shields to the ventrals; no yellow lateral stripe; head darker, 

 a black stripe on each side, passing through the eye; lips yellow. 

 Lower surface grey with lighter ventral keels or sand -colour 

 with brown keels; throat yellow. Length of head and body 

 525 mm.; tail 250 mm. 



Habitat: Nias!; Sumatra; (Deli!, Sungei Putih near Ser- 

 dang!, Assahan, Djambi !). 



2. Dendrophis calligaster Gunther. 



Dendypphis calligaster^ Giinthcr, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3) XX 1867, p. 53. 

 Dendrophis calligaster^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. II 1894, p. 80 (s. syn.). 

 Dcndrclaphis schlenckeri^ D. Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales XXIII 

 1898, p. 361. 



Maxillary teeth 20 — 26; eye not longer than its distance 

 from the posterior border of the nostril. Rostral more broad 



