yA ee COLUBRID ®. 
a trace of a yellowish median line; the anterior spot is produced 
angularly to the posterior border of the frontal; the rest of the 
upper surface of the head speckled with dark brown; tail with a 
yellow vertebral line ; an irregular series of small blackish spots 
along each abdominal edge, the lower surfaces being otherwise 
immaculate. 
Total length 560 millim. ; tail 65. 
Southern India. 
mw © (V. 193; 6.41); Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.].  (Type.) 
2. Simotes purpurascens. 
Xenodon purpurascens, Schleg. Phys, Serp. ii. p. 90, pl. iii. figs. 13 & 
14 (1837), and Ablild. p. 47, pl. xiv. (1844); Cantor, Cat. Mal. 
Rept, p. 67 (1847). 
Simotes trinotatus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 631 (1854); Giinth. Rept. 
Brit. Ind. p. 219 (1864). 
- albocinctus (non Cant.), Dum. § Bibr. p. 633, pl. 1xxxii. fig. 1. 
Calamaria brachyorrhos (non Schleg.), Motl. § Dillw. Nat, Hist. Lab. 
p. 49, pl. — (1855). 
Simotes purpurascens, var. G, Giinth. Cat. p. 25 (1858). 
pep Ceee Jan, Ar ch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 235, and 
Icon. Gén. 12, pl. v. tiv. 2 (1865): Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, 
p: 34; v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyd. Mus. xii. 1890, p. 255. 
— labuanensis, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 217. 
catenifer, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. 1875, p. 121, 
pl. xi. fig. 3. 
dennysi, Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1881, p. 218, pl. xxi. fig. 1. 
—- affinis, Fischer, Abh. naturw. Ver. Hamb. ix. 1885, p. “4, pl. i. 
fig. 1. 
Nasal divided; portion of rostral seen from above as long as its 
distance from the frontal; suture between the internasals as long 
as or longer than that between the prefrontals; frontal large, 
considerably longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as 
long as or longer than the parietals; loreal as long as deep; one 
or two preoculars, with one or two suboculars below ; two or three 
postoculars ; temporals 2+3 or 242; usually eight upper labials, 
fourth and fifth entering the eye, or fourth.excluded by the second 
subocular ; four or five sewade lubials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are about twice as long as the posterior. Scales 
in 19 or 21 rows. Ventrals 160-210, angulate laterally ; anal 
entire ; subcaudals 40-60. Brown above, with darker, black-edged 
sinuous transverse bands, or with yellowish black-edged cross bars ; 
a large arrow-headed dark-brown marking on the occiput and nape, 
with the apex on the frontal and usually confluent with a dark- 
brown chevron-shaped transverse band passing through the eyes; a 
dark oblique temporal streak ; belly yellowish, with square blackish 
spots, which may be confined to the sides. . 
Total length 680 millim.; tail 110. 
S. China, Cochinchina, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, 
Java. 
