192 1.] F. Wai.i, : Deiidrophis and Dendrelaphis. 153 



Dendrophis gorei Wall. 

 Gore's Dendrophis (or Bionze Back). 



Deiiiii-ophis pictus. Sclater, List. Sii. Ind. Mus.. 1891, p. 34 (part). Nos. 



,3045. 4042, 570.V 77"5. 7707 and 7736. 

 Deiidropliis gorei, .Annandalo, ffec. Ind. Mus., 1912, pp. 37, 48 and 53 



(part). (No. 16871 from Kiibo) ; Wall. Bomb. N.H.J.. IQIO, p. 829 ; 



I.e.. 1913, p. 639. 



Colour.— Very like D. pictus variet^^ cyanochloris. Dorsally 

 bronze, bluegrej' when the epidermis is shed, the bases and over- 

 lapped parts of the scales black, the latter enclosing turquoise-blue 

 patches. No buff anterior vertebral stripe. A series of black 

 equidistant, lateral, anterior bars. An ill-detined buff flank stripe 

 ending at the vent, with no black lines above or below. No caudal 

 stripes Ventrally greenish or grej'ish. Head bronze above. 

 No buff interparietal spot. No black- bordered, anterior supra- 

 labials. I^oreal shield entirely or partially black. A well-defined 

 black postocular stripe occupying the full depth of the temporal 

 region. 



Lepidosis. — Scales in 13 rows to behind midbody reducing to 

 II or 9 before the vent. Ventrals 187 to 199. Anal, divided 

 (entire in a specimen from Tounggyi, S. Shan States). Sub- 

 caudals, 139 to 153. Loreal as long as the nasals, its depth about 

 two-fifths its length. Temporals, i-t-l + 2. Supralabials, 8 (9 in 

 one example), usually the 2nd and 3rd touching the loreal, and 4th 

 and 5th touching the eye. 



Dentition. — From one skull in my collection. Maxillary, 24 to 

 25 coryphodont. Palatine, 13? to 15. Pterygoid, 21. Mandibular, 

 24 ? to 25. 



Distribution. — Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Burma. 



E. Himalayas. Darjeeling District (Nos. 7703, 7705, 7736). 



Assam. Kobo, Abor Expedition (No. 16871, Ind. Mus.) ; near 

 Dibrugarh (F. W.) ; Sibsagar (No. 4042, Ind. Mus.); Garo Hills 

 (No. 3945, Ind. Mus.); Naga Hills, Jaipur (F. W.) ; Samaguting 

 (No. 7707, Ind. Mus). 



Burma. S. Shan States (Tounggyi, Bombay colln.). 



Dendrophis pictus (Gmelin). 

 Gmelin's Dendrophis (or Bronze Back). 



Dcndropliis pictus, .'Knnandalc, J. A. S. Beng., 1903, pp. 174 and 175; 



BlMh, Andaman Islanders, pp. 365 and 366: Boulenger, Cat., Vol. 



II, 1893, p. 78; Sarasin, Zool . Jahr., Jena, 1910, p. 131 ; Sclater. 



List Sn. Ind. Mus.. 1891, p. 34 (part). (Nos. 4074. 4483, 4484, 4485, 



4486, 44»7, 448q, 4490, 4491, 4492, 4493, 4494, 7682, 7683, 7686, 7687, 



7691, 7692, 76Q6, 7698, 7700, 7701, 7704, 7706, 7709, 7710, 7711, 7712, 



7714. 7718-7734. 7755. 7886, 8614, 8615. 8894, 8S97. 8898, 12542); 



Wall and Evan.s. Bomb. N.H.J., igoo, p. 345; I.e.. 1901, p. 615; 



Wall Bomb. N.H.'f., 1909, p. 347 ; I.e., igio, pp. 787 ..nd 827 ; ' Lc., 



1918, p. 509. 

 Dendrophis gorei. .\nnand;ile. A'ec. Ind. Mus.. 1912. pp. 37, 48 and 53 



(part), (Nos. 16836 and 16993). 



