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and two postoculars; temporals i + 2; seven upper labials, third 

 and fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields; latter longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 15 rows; ventrals 140; anal entire; subcaudals 27. 



Black above, with yellow dots; a series of yellow spots along 

 the back. Lower surface whitish. Length of head and body 

 245 mm.; tail 40 mm. (Not seen by me). 



Habitat: Java. 



7. Oligodon pulcherrimus Werner. 



Oligodon pulcher7-inms^ Werner, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus, Hamb, XXVI 1909, 

 p. 227 fig. 4. 



Rostral visible from above; nasal divided; no internasals; 

 frontal as long as its distance from the tip of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals; loreal small, a little more long than deep; 

 one prae- and two postoculars; a long anterior temporal with 

 a second one under its posterior part; seven upper labials, third 

 and fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields; latter as long as the posterior. 

 Scales in 15 rows; ventrals 179; anal divided; subcaudals 30. 



Brown above, with a dark longitudinal band beginning on 

 the frontal, widening on the nape and enclosing 36 light brown, 

 black-edged, hexagonal spots; sides bluish-grey, spotted with 

 black and white near the ventrals; head brown with a dark 

 brown crescent-shaped band between the eyes on the prae- 

 frontals, supraoculars and frontal; an oblique band from the 

 anterior part of the parietals to the corner of the mouth, con- 

 tinued and widened on the neck; a dark spot on the rostral, 

 below the nostril, below the eye and on the suture between 

 the fifth and sixth upper labials. Lower surface yellow, the 

 outer ends of the ventrals alternatively spotted with black and 

 white; mental with a black spot and black posterior border; 

 first lower labials edged with dark posteriorly; chin-shields 

 and anterior ventrals spotted with black. Length of head and 

 body 325 mm.; tail 42 mm. (After Werner; not seen by me). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Pudang in district Bobangan). 



8. Oligodon praefrontalis Werner. 



Oligodon praefrontalis^ Werner, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamb. XXX 1913, p. 25. 



Rostral visible from above; nasal entire; no internasals; prae- 



