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loreal present. Maxillary teeth about lo, nearly equal; mandi- 

 bular teeth subequal. Body round, covered with smooth scales 

 without pits, in 17 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail short; sub- 

 caudals in two rows. 



Distribution. Borneo. 



A single species. 



I. Oreocalamus hanitschi Boulenger. 



Oreocalamus Hanitschi^ Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) IV 1899, p. 452, figured 

 in Journ, Straits Branch Asiat. Soc. 34, 1900 pi. I, fig. 3. 



Snout pointed; rostral as deep as broad, visible from above; 

 internasals longer than its distance from the tip of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals; nostril close to the rostral, between 

 the nasal and the first 

 labial; loreal more long 

 than deep, wedged in 

 below between the se- 

 cond and third labials; 

 one prae- and one post- 

 ocular; temporals i + 2; 

 eight upper labials, 

 fourth and fifth entering 

 the eye, seventh largest; 

 four lower labials in 

 contact with the ante- 

 rior chin-shields; latter 

 longer than the poste- 



Fig. 57. Oreocalamus hanitschi Blgr. 



After a figure by Boulenger published 



by Hanitsch. 



nor. Scales in 17 rows; ventrals 127; anal entire; subcaudals 26. 



Blackish-brown above. Lower surface yellowish-white with 

 a few scattered brown dots; outer ends of ventrals blackish; 

 tail brown beneath with a dark median streak. Length of head 

 and body 325 mm.; tail 50 mm. (After BOULENGER; not 

 seen by me). 



Habitat: Borneo (Mt. Kina Balu 4200 feet). 



Only one specimen known. 



31. Idiopholis Mocquard. 



(MoCQUARD, I.e Naturaliste p. 35, 1892). 



Head not distinct from neck; eye very small; pupil round; 

 nostril between two scales; internasals small; an azygous shield 



