156 COLUBEID^. 



ending in a point. Dark brown or black above ; head often 

 yellow, entirely or partially ; body sometimes with yellowish 

 cross-bars or transverse series of spots; yellowish beneath, with 

 or without large black transverse spots or cross-bands. 



Total length 410 millim. ; tail 33. 



Perak (4000 feet) and Malay Archipelago. 



168. Calamaria albiventer. 



Chanqulia albiventer, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii, pi. Ixxxvi, fig. 3 



(1834). 

 Cahnnaria liniuci, var., Cantor, Jom'n. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, p. 909 



(1847). 

 Calamaria albiventer, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 197' '(1864) ; 



Bouleng. Cat. Sn. ii, p. 33G (1894) : S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, 



p. 074. 



Eostral nearly as deep as broad ; frontal once and a half as long 

 as broad, not twice as broad as the supraocular, as long as the 

 parietals ; a prse- and a postocular ; diameter of eye equal to its 

 distance from the mouth ; 5 upper labials, third and fourth entering 

 the eye ; symphysial in contact with the anterior chin-shields. 

 13 rows of scales. Ventrals 143-167; anal entire ; subcaudals 

 16-21. Tail ending in a point, Eed-brown above, with a pair of 

 black-edged bright red vertebral lines and a bluish-white, black- 

 edged line on each side ; lower parts red (carmine or coral-red), 

 yellow under the head ; a black line along the middle of the tail. 



Total length 390 millim. ; tail 20. 



Known from Penaug and Province Weilesley. 



169. Calamaria sumatrana. 



Edeliug, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxxi, p. 379 (1870); W. L. 

 Sclater. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Ix, p. 1^33 (1891) ; Bouleng. 

 Cat. Sn. ii, p. 339 (1894). 



Rostral a little broader than deep ; frontal longer than broad, 

 rather more than twice as broad as the supraocular, a little shoi'ter 

 than the parietals ; a pra?- and a postocular ; diameter of eye 

 equal to its distance from the mouth ; 5 upper labials, third and 

 fourth entering the eye ; symphysial in contact with the anterior 

 chin-sliields. 13 rows of scales. Ventrals 129-176; anal entire ; 

 subcaudals 12-31. Tail ending in a point, lieddish brown or 

 dark brown above, with five black longitudinal lines or series of 

 small black spots ; each scale of the outer row with a white spot ; 

 a more or less distinct yellow collar on the nape, continuous or 

 narrowly interrupted in the middle ; sometimes a similar mai'king 

 at the base of tlie tail ; lower parts uniform yelloA\ish, Mith a 

 more or less distinct black line along the middle of the tail. 



Total length 265 millim. ; tail 12. 



Singapore and Sumatra. 



