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COLUBRID^. 



black lines radiating from the eye ; lower parts uniform yellow or 

 speckled with olive. 



Total length 1610 millim. ; tail 330. 



From Soutliern China, the Eastern Himalayas, and Bengal to 

 the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Eecorded from Penang, 

 Prov. Wellesley, Jalor, Kelautan, and Singapore. According to 

 Laidlaw, it is common in houses in Patani, where it is called 

 the Rat-snake, " Ular tikus," which is used as a general term for all 

 non-poisonous carnivorous snakes of considerable size. 



151. Coluber taeniurus. 



Elaplds tmiiuriis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 565 ; Giinth. 



Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 242 (1861). 

 Maphis grahowski/i, Fisch. Arch. f. Nat. 1885, p. 59, pi. iv, fio-. 3. 

 Coluber tmnnrus, Boiileng. Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 333 (1890) ; id. 



Cat. Su. ii, p. 47 (1894) ; Ridley, Join-n. Straits Branch Roy. 



Asiat. Soc. 1898, p. 99 ; S. riower,>. Z. S. 1899, p. 668 ; Bouleng. 



Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, p. 162, and Journ. Fed. Malay States 



Mus. iii, p. 68 (1908). 

 Coluber tieniurus, A'ar. ridleyi, Butler, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



Bombay, xii, p. 426 (1899). 



Malay name, UJar Imlan (Moon-snake). 



Rostral broader than deep ; internasals much shorter than the 

 prsefrontals ; frontal 1^ to If times as long as broad, as long as 



Fig. 46. — Coluber tceniurus. 

 Young from Kuala Teku, Pabang. 



or shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as 

 or a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep j 

 a large prseocular, sometimes in contact with the frontal, usually 



