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as or a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout or 
from the rostral, shorter than the parietals; loreal not or but 
slightly longer than deep; one large prxocular ; two postoculars ; 
temporals 2+2 or 2+8; nine upper labials, fourth to sixth 
entering the eye; five or six lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 
19 rows (21 on the neck), rather strongly keeled ; all the caudal 
scales keeled. Ventrals with an obtuse lateral keel, 193-234; 
anal entire; subcaudals 89-109. Pale brown anteriorly, with a 
yellow, black-edged vertebral stripe, which becomes gradually more 
and more indistinct towards the hinder part of the body, which, 
like the tail, is darker brown or black; a series of black spots on 
each side of the anterior part of the body, of ocelli with bright 
yellow centres in the young; some adult nearly uniform blackish 
brown; a black streak below the eye ; an oblique black streak from’ 
the eye to the angle of the mouth, and another on the temple and 
neck. 
Total length 1500 millim.; tail 380. 
Southern China, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, 
Java. 
qo (V. 214; C.?). China. — Lindsay, Esq. [P. ]. 
b. Yg. (V. 222; C. 100). Pinang. Gen. Hardwicke (P.]. 
e. do (V. 217; C. 90). Singapore. Dr. Dennys [P.]. 
do? (Vo 219; 'C. 101). Sumatra. Leyden Museum. 
ef. & (V. 217; C. 99) & Deli, Sumatra. Mr. Iversen [C.]. 
Q (V. 222; ©. 100) 
g: 2 (V. 221; .C-.?). Nias. Hr. Sundermann [C.]. 
h. Yg. (V. 216; C.103). Borneo. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 
ik. Yg. (V. 203, 193; Borneo. L. L. Dillwyn, Esq 
C. 89, 90). eae 
l. Her. (V. 212; C. 106). Borneo. Sir J. Brooke [P.]. 
m. 2 (V. 230; C. 102). Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [P.}. 
n-p. 3 (V. 206; C. 107) Rejang R.,Sarawak. Brooke Low, Esq. [ P.] 
& yg. (V. 207, 230; 
C. 101, 99). 
q. & (V. 234; C. 107). Sarawak, A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 
r. 3 (V. 208; C. 98). Baram, Borneo, C. Hose, Esq. [C. ]. 
eer (V.221; ©. 91). . Java. 
t. Skull, Sarawak. 
36. Coluber radiatus. 
Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. pl. xlii. (1801). 
Coluber radiatus, Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 135, pl. v. figs: 5 & 6 
(1887); Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 73 (1847); Bouleng. Faun. 
Ind., Rept. p. 333 (1890); W. Sclater, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. 
lx. 1891, p. 239. 
quadrifasciatus, Cantor, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 51. 
Tropidonotus quinque, Cantor, 1. c. p. 54. 
Compsosoma radiatum, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 292 (1854); Giinth. 
Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 243 (1864) ; Theob. Cat, Rept. Brit. Ind. p.165 
(1876); Anders, An, Zool. Res, Yunnan, p. 815 (1879). 
