60. coLUBER. Grae 
Gonyosoma viride, Wagl. Icon. Amph. pl. ix. (1828). 
Herpetodryas oxycephalus, Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 189, pl. vii. 
figs. 8 & 9 (1837), and Abbild. pl. xliv. figs. 1-9 (1844) ; Cantor, 
Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 80 (1847). 
Alopecophis chalybeus, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (2) iv. 1849, 
. 247, 
enicerna oxycephalum, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 213 (1854); Giinth. 
Cat. p. 122 (1858), and Rept. Brit. Ind, p. 294 (1864) ; Jan, Icon. 
Gén. 31, pl. 1. (1869) ; Stolezka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, 
p- 193, & xlii. 1873, p. 128; Theod. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 189 
(1876). 
Body rather compressed. Snout subacuminate, elongate, obliquely 
truncate and projecting ; rostral nearly as deep as broad, visible 
from above; internasals one half to two thirds as long as the pre- 
frontals, which are more than half as long as the parietals ; frontal 
as long as broad, or a little longer, as long as its distance from the 
Syeet or the end of the snout, a little Shonen than the parietals ; 
loreal very elongate; one large preocular, in contact with the 
frontal ; two postoculars ; temporals 2+3,; nine to eleven upper 
labials, two (rarely three) of which (fifth and sixth or sixth and 
seventh) enter the eye; six lower labials in contact with the ante- 
rior chin-shields, which are much longer than the posterior. Scales 
in 23 to 27 rows, smooth or faintly keeled. Ventrals witha lateral 
keel, 233 to 263; anal divided; subcaudals 122-149. Bright 
green above, the scales usually finely edged with black; yellowish 
or pale green below ; a blackish streak along each side of the head, 
passing through the eye; tail usually yellowish brown. 
Total length 2300 millim.; tail 480. 
Eastern Himalay as, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
a. 2 «(Se, 25; -.V.. 258; Tenasserim, Prof. Oldham [P.}. 
C. 123). 
6. Her. (Se. 27; V. 248; Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 
C. 142). 
c,d. 9 (Se. 25, 23; V. Singapore. Gen. Hardwicke [ P.]. 
252, 238; C. 136, 139). 
é. 6 (Se. 25; V. 233; C. Borneo, Sir J. Brooke [P.]. 
133). 
f. 3 (Se. 25; V.241; C. Borneo. L. L. Dillwyn, Esq. 
136). zai 
Prleee(se. 27 5) V.. 251 Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq.[C.]. 
’ 
C, 122) & yg. (Sc. 25; 
V. 245 ; C. 122). 
7-k, l. § (Se. 25; V. 240; Java. 
C. 143), her. (Se. 25; 
V. 240; C. 139), & yg. 
(Se. 25 : V. 239; 0, 138). 
m. Ye. (Se. 25; V. 286; ~~ [Mauritius. ] Zoological Society. 
C. 135), (Type of Alopecophis chalybeus.) 
31. Coluber janseni. (Prare I. fig. 2.) 
Gonyosoma jansenii, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xvi. 1858, 
p. 242, 
