1921.J F. Wall : Dcndrophis and Dendrclaphis. 159 



S. India. Trivandrum (F. W.) ; Travancore (No. 13504, Ind. 

 Mus.). 



Ceylon. North Prov. (Vavuniya, Mullaitivu, Colombo Mus.); 

 Sab'wa Prov. (Yatiyantota, Colombo Mus.) ; South Prov. (Calle, 

 F. W.). 



Note. — I have seen over twenty-five specimens. 



Genus Dendrelaphis. 

 Dendrelaphis biloreatus Wall. 



Wall, Bomb. N.H.J., 1907, p. 273, I.e.. ii)io, p. 830. 



Colour. — Dorsally bronze, the bases and overlapped portions of 

 the scales black, the lower borders enclosing a turquoise- blue 

 patch. No buff anterior vertebral stripe. A buff flank stripe on 

 the lower half of the penultimate, and the whole of the ultimate 

 row, ending at the vent. Head bronze above. A black loreal 

 stripe. A deep postocular stripe. No buff interparietal spot. 

 Lips buff, the anterior labials are edged with black posteriorly. 



Length. — 699 mm. (2 feet 3J- inches). 



Lepidosis. — Costals in 13 rows to l)ehind midbody, reducing 

 to 9 before the vent. Ventrals, 192 Anal, divided. Subcaudals, 

 147. 



Distribution. — Assam, Sadiya. 



Dendrelaphis subocularis (Boulenger). 

 Fea's Dendrelaphis (or Bronze Back). 



Deiidrelapliis sitboculai'is, Boulenger, Cat., Vol. H, p. 89; Malcolm- 

 Smith, Bomb. N.H.J., 1915, p. 785. 

 Demiyopliis siibociildris. Sclaler, List Sii, Ind. :Uii<.. l8gi, p. 35. 



Colour. — Extremely like Dendrelaphis tristis. Dorsally bronze, 

 the bases and overlapped portions of the scales black. A buff 

 anterior vertebral stripe. A series of more or less distinct blackish 

 equidistant, anterior, lateral bars. A buff flank stripe to the vent 

 on the upper half of the ultimate and lower half of the penultimate 

 rows. No black lines above or below the flank stripe. No caudal 

 lines or stripes. Belly yellowish or greenish-yellow. Head bronze 

 above. No buff' interparietal spot. Loreal more or less black. 

 The first four supralabials with narrow black posterior borders. A 

 black postocular stripe occupying the full depth of the temporal 

 region. 



Length. — 820 mm. (2 feet 8^ inches). 



Lepidosis. — The scales are in 15 rows to behind midbody, 

 reducmg to 11 or 9 before the vent. Ventrals, 158 to 188. 

 Anal, divided. Subcaudals, 74 to 104. Loreal, rather shorter 

 than the nasals, its depth about two-fifths its length. Temporals, 

 2 + 2-1-2. Supralabials 8, the 2nd and 3rd touching the loreal, 

 5th (apparently a confluence of two shields) touching the eye. 



Dentition. — Maxillary 18 ?, isodont orsubisodont, not corypho- 

 dont. I have no skull. 



