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I. Brachyorrhus albus (L.). 



Coluber alhus^ Linne, Mus. Ad. Frid. 1754, p. 24, pi. XIV, fig. 2. ^ 



Brachyorrlms albus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 305 (s. syn.). 



Snout obtusely pointed; rostral as deep as broad, visible 

 from above; internasals as long as or shorter than the prae- 

 frontals, sometimes fused; frontal longer than its distance from 

 the tip of the snout, shorter than the parietals, much broader 

 than the supraocular; praeocular distinct or fused with the 

 praefrontal; two postoculars; temporals 1+2 or 2 + 3; six or 

 seven upper labials, third or fourth or third and fourth entering 

 the eye; four lower labials in contact with the single pair of 



Fig. 62. Brachyorrhus albus (L.) X '/2' Side view of head. 



chin-shields. Scales in 17 or 19 rows; ventrals 146 — 182; anal 

 divided (rarely entire); subcaudals 20 — 46. 



Uniformly brown above; lower parts yellowish. Young speci- 

 mens with an interrupted yellow band across the occiput; a 

 brown median streak or series of spots along the belly and 

 tail. Length of head and body 672 mm.; tail 87 mm. 



Habitat: Java!; Borneo!; Timor!; Ternate; Halmahera!; 

 Batjan!; Ceram!; Ambon!; Burn!; Haruku!; Banda; Aru Islands; 

 New Guinea (Jobi, Amberbaki, Andai, Mt. Arfak). 



36. Calamorhabdium Bottger. 



(BOttger, Katalog. Rept.-Samml. Mus. Senckenb. II p. 82, 1898). 



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

 between the nasal and the first upper labial; internasals, loreal, 



