202 



gularis var. papiianus. Its colour is somewhat different from 

 the usual one. Pinkish-grey above, each scale speckled with 

 fine brown dots; ventrals and subcaudals speckled with brown. 

 In the stomach of one of those specimens were 7 shells of 

 fowl's eggs. 



8. Dipsadomorphus flavescens (Dum. & Bibr.). 



Triglyphodon flavescens^ Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gea. VII 1854, p. 1080. 

 Dipsadorinorphus flave<:ceiis^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 77. 



Rostral triangular, visible from above; loreal small; praeocular 

 not extending to the upper surface of the head; three post- 

 oculars; temporals 2 + 4; eight upper labials. Scales in 19 rows, 

 vertebrals enlarged; ventrals 260; anal entire; subcaudals 1 16. 



Brown or yellowish-brown above, with indistinct angular 

 spots or transverse bands. Lower surface lighter. Length of 

 head and body 887 mm.; tail 234 mm. (After DUMERiL & 

 Bibron ; not seen by me). 



Habitat: Celebes (Macassar). 



46. Psammodynastes Giinther. 



(GuNTHER, Cat. Col. Sn. p. 140, 1858). 



Head distinct from neck; canthus rostralis 

 angular; eye large; pupil vertically elliptic; nasal 

 single; frontal very narrow. Maxillary teeth 9 — 1 1, 

 third or third and fourth enlarged, separated 

 from the following by a short interspace, last 

 enlarged and grooved; anterior mandibular teeth 

 strongly enlarged. Body round, covered with 

 ig- 77- ^""'■- smooth scales, without pits, in 17 or 19 rows; ven- 



vioaynastesputtis ry- . , . , 



Gtlir. trals rounded. Tail short; subcaudals in two rows. 



Chin-shields X 2. Distribution. S. E. Asia. 



Key to the Indo-Australian species, 



A. Lower labials separated by the chin-shields. . . i. /". pulverulentus p. 202. 



B. Third lower labial large, bordering the mental 



groove behind the anterior chin-shields (fig. 77). 2. /'. pic t us p. 203. 



I. Psammodynastes pulverulentus (Boie). 



Psammophis pulveruleiita^ Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 547. 



rsammodynastes pulverulentus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 172 (s. syn.). 



Anisodon Lilljeborgi^ Rosen, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) XV 1905, p. 176. 



