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which is but little broader than deep, and the shorter posterior 
chin-shields, which are not or but slightly longer than the anterior. 
Ventrals 239-243 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 107-108. Brown above, 
darker along the back, uniform or with black spots disposed in 
longitudinal series on the anterior part of the body; a short dark 
streak behind the eye; lower parts yellowish, spotted with pale 
brown posteriorly. 
Total length 1420 millim.; tail 310. 
Engano Island, 8.W. Sumatra, 
39. Coluber subradiatus. 
Coluber subradiatus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 186 (1837), and 
Abbild. p. 101, pls. xxviii. figs. 7 & 8, and pl. xxix. (1840). 
Compsosoma subradiatum, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 297 (1854). 
Elaphis subradiatus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 95 (1858). 
—— nyctenurus, Jan, Elenco, p. 61 (1863). 
subradiatus, Van Lidth de Jeude,in M. Weber, Zool. Ergebn. 
p. 184 (1890). 
Nearly allied to C. radiatus, but differing in the following points :— 
Rostral much broader than deep; a subocular below the ocular; 
fifth and sixth labials entering the eye; anterior chin-shields 
much shorter than the posterior; scales in 23 or 25 rows (25 or 
27 on the neck). Ventrals 228-242; anal entire; subcaudals 
80-100. Pale reddish brown above, with a pair of black stripes 
along each side of the anterior half of the body; these stripes may 
be broken up into series of spots; a short black streak behind the 
eye; lower parts uniform yellowish. 
Total length 1250 millim. ; tail 260. 
Timor, Flores. 
a. 6 (Sc. 23; V. 233; C. Timor. Leyden Museum. 
93). (One of the types.) 
b. Ye. (Sc. 28; V. 230; —? Dr. Bleeker. 
C. 96). 
40. Coluber lineaticollis. 
Arizona lineaticollis, Cope, Proc, Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 300. 
Spilotes lineaticollis, Cope, Bull. US. Nat. Mus. no. 32, 1887, p. 72. 
Pituophis lineaticollis, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 124, pl. xlvii. 
(1894). 
Rostral broader than deep, visible from above; internasals broader 
than long, shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal once and a half as 
long as broad, as long as its distance from the rostral, a little shorter 
than the parietals ; loreal a little longer than deep; one (or two) 
pre- and three postoculars; temporals 2+3 or 4; eight or nine 
upper labials, fourth and fifth, or fourth, fifth, and sixth, entering 
the eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields. Scales in 27 rows, dorsals strongly keeled. Ventrals 244; 
anal entire; subcaudals 69. Pale brown above; head uniform ; 
