172 COLUBRID^. 



purplish grey above ; body reddisli or pale greyish brown, uniform 

 or irregularly mottled A^ith darker, sometimes with the dorsal 

 series of small black spots ; upper lip and lower parts yellowish 

 white ; belly and tail often speckled with grey. 



Total length 1650 millim. ; tail 410. 



Borneo, Java, and 8elangor. The pale variety named D. pal- 

 liclus was described from a single specimen from Jalor. 



188. Dipsadomorphus cynodon. 



Dipsas ct/nodon, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 559; Guiith. Kept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 308 (1869). 

 Dipsas cynodon, part., Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, 



p. 924 (1847). 

 Dipsadomorphus cynodon, Bouleug. Cat. Sii. iii, p. 78 (1896) ; 



S. llower, P.Z.'S. 1899, p. 081. 



Malay name, Ular saiva huroiuj. 



Anterior palatine and mandibular teeth very strongly enlarged. 

 Eostral broader than deep ; internasals shorter than the prae- 

 frontals ; frontal as long as broad or slightly longer than broad, 

 as long as or a little longer than its distance from the end of the 

 snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal square, or longer than 

 deep; one praeocular, narrowly separated from the frontal; 2 post- 

 oculars ; temporals 2 + 2, 2 + 3, or 3 + 3; 8 to 10 upper labials, 

 three entering the eye ; 4 or 5 lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, Avhich are smaller than the posterior. Scales 

 in 23 (rarely 25) ro\\s, \ertebral ro\\- strongly enlarged. Ventrals 

 248-290 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 114-159. Yellowish or pale 

 reddish brown above, usually with dark brown or black transverse 

 spots or cross-bars, or dark brown or black, with more or less 

 distinct lighter cross-bars ; a dark streak on each side of the head,, 

 behind the eye; bell}^ yellowish, uniform or speckled or marbled 

 with brown, or entirelv black. 



Total length 2450 niillim. 



From Assam and Burma to the Malay Peninsula and Archi- 

 pelago ; generally distributed in the Malay Peninsula (Penaug, 

 Prov. Wellesley, Perak, Selangor, Johore Bahru, Jalor, Malacca, 

 Singapore). 



A specimen taken by Dr. Annandale, coiled up on a bush about 

 four feet above the ground, was sluggish in demeanour and made 

 little attempt to escape. 



Genus PSAMMODYNASTES. 



Gunth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 140 (l8."jf<). 



Maxillary teeth 9 to 11, tliird or third and fourth nuich en- 

 larged, fang-like, followed by a short interspace, last enlarged 

 and grooved ; anterior mandibular teeth strongly enlarged. Head 



