SIMOTES, 147 



enlarged ; ventrals with a suture-like lateral keel and a notch on 

 each side, corresponding to the keel. Tail long ; subcaudals in 

 two rows, keeled and notched like the ventrals. 



South-Eastern Asia and Papuasia, 



A single species in the Malay Peninsula. 



156. Dendrelaphis caudolineatus. 



Ahcetula caialolineata, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii, pi. Ixxxi (1834). 

 Leptophis caudolineatus, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, 



p. 9.32 (1847). 

 Dendrophis caudolineatus, Giinth. Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 297 (1864) ; 



Bouleuo;. Faun. Brit. lud., Kept. p. 339 (1890) ; id. Cat. Sn. ii, 



p. 89 (1894). 



Eje nearly as long as snout. Rostral a little broader than 

 deep; internasals as long as or a little shorter than the prae- 

 frontals ; frontal Ig to If times as long as broad, longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal elongate ; one prte- and two postoculars ; tem- 

 porals 2 + 2; 9 upper labials, fifth and sixth (rarely fourth to 

 sixth) entering the eye ; 5 lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales 

 in IB rows. Ventrals 171-188 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 100-112. 

 Light brownish bronze or greenish yellow above, the scales with 

 black edges forming more or less regular longitudinal lines ; a 

 yellowish lateral streak, edged above and below by a black band, 

 the lower of \^hich extends to the outer edge of the ventrals ; 

 lips and lower parts pure metallic citrine, the tail with a black 

 median line. 



Total length 1-^20 millim. ; tail 380. 



Southern India, Mergui, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 

 Recorded from Penang, Prov. Wellesley, Pahang, Perak, and 

 Singapore, and almost the commonest snake in Selaugor. Mr. 

 Ridley remarks (Journ. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 1899, 

 p. 198) that when annoyed it emits an appalliug odour of carrion. 



Genus SIMOTES. 

 I)mn. & Bibr. Mem. Ac. Sc. xxiii, p. 472 (1853). 



Maxillary teeth 8 to 12, posterior very strongly enlarged and 

 compressed ; mandibular teeth subequal. Head short, not distinct 

 from neck ; eye rather small, with round pupil ; rostral shield 

 large. Body cylindrical ; scales smooth (or feebly keeled), in 13 

 to 21 ro\^'s, with or without apical pits ; ventrals rounded or 

 obtusely keeled laterally. Tail shorter moderate; subcaudals in 

 two rows. 



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