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Brown above, with a few yellowish rings, indistinct in the 

 adult. Lower surface brown. Young specimens with a yellowish 

 streak on each side of the head. Length of head and body 

 530 mm.; tail 170 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Deli); Borneo (Singkawang, Baram!). — 

 Penang; Malay Peninsula. 



Lycodon fasciatus Anders, is recorded from the "Indes Neer- 

 landaises" by Despax (Bull. Mus. d' hist, natur. N^. 4 1912, p. 3). 

 This species normally lives in Burma, Assam and Yunnan, so 

 that the locahty above mentioned does not seem probable. 



21. Lepturophis Boulenger. 



(BOULENGER, PrOC. Zool. Soc. p. 1 83, I900). 



Head distinct from neck, much depressed; eye moderate; 

 pupil vertically elliptic; nostril very large, between two nasals 

 and the first upper labial. Maxillary teeth 6^6. Body very 

 long . and slender, round, covered with strongly keeled scales 

 with pits, the keels finely serrated, in 17 rows; ventrals keeled 

 and notched laterally. Tail very long and slender; subcaudals 

 in two rows. 



Distribution. Borneo. 



A single species. 



I. Lepturophis borneensis Boulenger. 



Lepturophis borTieensis^ Boulenger, Pioc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 183, pi. XV. 



Snout much depressed, broadly truncate; rostral just visible 



Fig. 48. Lepturophis borneensis Blgr. After Boulenger. 



from above; internasals scarcely half as long as the praefrontals; 

 frontal as long as the praefrontals, half as long as the parietals; 



iNDO-AUSTRALIAN REPTILES II. 



