65. DENDRELAPHIS. 89 
grtHer.. oh (VeElirs Trincomalee. Major Barrett [P.]. 
C. 128). 
o. Skull, India. Haslar Collection. 
p. Skull. 
2. Dendrelaphis subocularis. 
Dendrophis picta, part., Anders. An. Zool. Res, Yunnan, p. 824 
(1879). 
subocularis, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) vi. 1888, p. 600, 
pl. vi. fig. 2, and Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 338 (1890). 
Kye as long as its distance from the anterior border of the nostril. 
Rostral a little broader than deep, visible from above; internasals 
nearly as long as the prefrontals; frontal once and two thirds as 
long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 
a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal elongate; one pre- and 
two postoculars ; temporals 2+2; eight upper labials, fifth largest 
and bordering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are much longer than the posterior. Scales in 
15 rows. Ventrals 167-172; anal divided; subcaudals 74-105. 
Olive-brown above, upper lip and a lateral streak yellowish white ; 
an olive-brown stripe between the lateral yellowish streak and the 
yellowish ventrals, occupying the extremities of the latter shields 
and the lower half of the outer scales ; a black line behind the eye, 
above the labials ; anterior labials with black lines on the sutures ; 
a rather indistinct pale greenish line along the nape, bordered on each 
slde, in the young, by a series of large round black spots, 
Total length 820 millim.; tail 220. 
Upper Burma. 
a. Hgr. (V. 167 ; C. 105). Bhamo. M. L. Fea [C.]. 
(One of the types.) 
3. Dendrelaphis caudolineatus. 
Ahetula caudolineata, Gray, Ill. Ind. Zool. ii. pl. lxxxi. (1834). 
Leptophis caudalineatus, Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 85 (1847). 
Dendrophis octolineata, Dum. §& Bibr. vii. p. 201 (1835) ; Jan, Icon. 
Gén. 32, pl. 11. fig. 1 (1869). 
caudolineata, Giinth. Cat. p. 150 (1858), and Rept. Brit. Ind. 
p. 297 (1864); Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, Beng. xxxix. 1870, 
p- 194; Giinth. Zool. Rec. 1870, p. 75; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soe. 
Beng. xii. 1873, p. 123. 
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 339 (1890). 
Snout little longer than the eye, which exceeds its distance from 
the nostril. Rostral a little broader than deep, visible from above ; 
internasals as long as or a little shorter than the preefrontals; frontal 
once and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, longer 
than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the 
parietals ; loreal elongate ; one pra- and two postoculars ; temporals 
2+2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth (rarely fourth, fifth, and 
sixth) entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the 
