78 COLUBRIDZ. 
II. Maxillary teeth 27 to 33; eye usually longer than its distance 
from the nostril. 
A. Scales in 15 rows. 
Two postoculars; vertebral scales scarcely 
enlarged on the anterior part of the 
body; ventrals 174-188 .......... 
Usually three postoculars ; vertebral 
scales very strongly enlarged ; ventrals 
NO O05's Popul 3p chase the phere rae toe 
B. Scales in 13 rows. 
Two postoculars; ventrals 149-161; 
subcaudals 124-128 .............. 
Two postoculars; ventrals 173-203; 
psupcaudals ISI 151. 2.4, pea ante 
Three postoculars; ventrals 162; sub- 
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5. grandoculis, p. 84. 
6. formosus, p. 84. 
7. caudolineolatus, p. 85. 
8. lineolatus, p. 85. 
9, gastrostictus, p- 86. 
1. Dendrophis pictus. 
? Coluber aheetulla, Linn. Mus, Ad. Frid. p. 35, pl. xxii. fig. 3 
(1754). 
? Coluber aheetulla, part., Zinn. S. N.i. p 
. 387 (1766). 
? Natrix aheetulla, Laur. Syn, Rept. p. 79 (1768). 
Coluber pictus, Gmel. S. N. 1. p. 1116 (1788). 
decorus, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 538 (1802). 
Dipsas schokari, part., Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. vergl. Anat. p. 80 (1820). 
Ahetulla decorus, Gray, Ann. Phil. x. 1825, p. 208. 
Leptophis ahzetulla, part., Bell, Zool. Journ. i. 1825, p. 328. 
Dendrophis picta, Bove, Isis, 1827, p. 580; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 193. 
? Dendrophis polychroa, Bove, 7. e. 
Aheetulla bellii, Gray, Il. Ind. Zool. ii. pl. Ixxx. (1834). 
Dendrophis pictus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 228, pl. ix. figs. 5-7 
(1837); Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 197 (1854) ; Girard, U.S. Explor. 
Exped., Herp. p. 129 (1858) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 148 (1858), and Rept. 
Brit. Ind. p. 297 (1864) ; Jan, Icon, Gén. 82, pl. i. fig. 3 (1869) ; 
Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 190 (1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., 
Rept. p. 837 (1890). . 
Leptophis pictus, Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 82 (1847). 
Ahvretulla picta, part., Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 556. 
Dendrophis picta, var. andamanensis, Anders, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 
p- 184. 
Leptophis formosus, Jan, Icon. Gén. 49, pl. vi. fig. 2 (1879). 
Maxillary teeth 23 to 26. Hye as long as its distance from the 
nostril. Rostral much broader than deep, visible from above; 
internasals as long as or a little shorter than the prefrontals ; 
frontal once and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, 
as long as its distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, 
shorter than the parietals; loreal elongate (in one specimen 
divided into two, in another fused with the prefrontal) ; one pre- 
and two postoculars; temporals 2+ 2, rarely 1+1 or 1+2; nine 
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