56 COLUBRID. 
Rees 20; WA. 2s China. Dr. A. Giinther [P.]. 
C. 95). (Type of Phyllophis carinata.) 
hho AV. 215; A. 2. China. R.Swinhoe, Esq. [C. }. 
C. 96) & Q (V. 209; 
A. 2; ©. 90). 
28. Coluber davidi. 
Tropidonotus_ davidi, ates Bull, Soe. Hees (7) viii, 1884, 
p. 144 *. z 
Snout slightly projecting ; eye rather ine Rostral visible from - 
above; internasals as long as broad, two thirds the length of the 
priefrontals ; frontal twice as long as broad, as long as its distance 
from the end of the snout, not longer than the parietals; loreal 
longer than deep ; two preeoculars, with a subocular below them ; two 
postoculars ; temporals 24+3 or 3+4; eight upper labials, fourth 
and fifth entering the eye. Scales in 23 rows, strongly keeled, 
outer row smooth. Ventrals 173; anal divided; subcaudals 70. 
Yellowish brown, with large irregular brown spots ; head without 
any markings. 
Total length 750 millim. ; tail 160. 
China. 
29. Coluber moellendorfii. 
Cynophis moellendorfhii, Boettg. aus Anz. 1886, p. 520, and Ber. 
Offenb. Ver. Naturk. ‘1888, p. 72, pl. i. fig. 1. 
Rostral broader than deep, visible from above; internasals 
broader than long, hardly half as long as the prefrontals; frontal a 
little longer than broad, not quite as long as its distance from the 
rostral, a little shorter than the parietals; loreal twice as long as 
deep ; a large preocular, in contact with the frontal, with a sub- 
ocular below it; two postoculars; temporals 2+3 or 242; ten 
upper labials, sixth and seventh entering the eye; five lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the 
posterior. Scales in 27 rows, feebly but distinctly keeled, outer 
rows smooth. Ventrals obtusely keeled laterally, 268-274; anal 
divided ; subcaudals 97-99. Grey above, with a dorsal series of 
large, dark grey, black-edged hexagonal spots, and a. lateral series 
of alternating smaller spots; yellowish-white inferiorly, largely 
checkered with black. 
Total length 1655 millim, ; tail 310. 
Nanning and Canton, China. 
30. Coluber oxycephalus. 
Coluber oxycephalus, Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 537; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., 
Rept. p. 335 (1890); W. Sclater, Journ, As. Soc, Beng. Ix. 
1891, p. 239. 
* T am indebted to Dr. Mocquard for notes on, and a sketch of, the head of 
the type specimen preseryed in the Paris Museum, 
