224 COLUBRID. 
8. Simotes octolineatus. 
Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. pl. xxxviii. (1801). 
Elaps octolineatus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 299 (1801). 
Coluber octolineatus, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 540 (1802); Daud. Rept. 
vii. p. 17 (1803). 
Coronella octolineata, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 77 (1837). 
Simotes octolineatus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 654, pl. Ixxxii. fig. 38 
(1854); Giinth. Cat. p. 24 (1858); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 
1863, p. 235, and Icon. Gén, 12, pl. v. fig. 1 (1865); Bouleng. Faun. 
Ind., Rept. p. 318 (1890), and Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) ix. 1892, 
74, 
tess meyerinkii, Steindachn. Sitzb, Ak. Wien, c. 1891, p. 294. 
Nasal divided ; portion of rostral seen from above a little shorter 
than its distance from the frontal ; suture between the internasals 
nearly as long as that between the preefrontals ; frontal longer than 
its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; 
loreal as long as deep; preocular single; two postoculars; tem- 
porals 2+ 2; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; 
four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; posterior 
chin-shields about two thirds the length of the anterior. Scales in 
17 rows. Ventrals obtusely angulate, 156-197 ; anal undivided ; 
subcaudals 43-61. Yellow with six black longitudinal stripes, or 
blackish with yellow longitudinal lines, which are much narrower 
than the interspaces between them; head yellow, the two median 
dorsal bands meeting on the frontal; a black creseentic eross band 
anteriorly, passing through the eyes, and an oblique band on each side 
from the parietal shield to below the angle of the mouth; lower 
surfaces uniform or with a series of black spots on each side of the 
ventrals, sometimes confluent into a line. 
Total length 680 millim. ; tail 100. 
Java, Borneo, Sooloo Islands, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula ; 
Anamallay Hills, 8. India. 
A. Yellowish above, with six black longitudinal stripes. 
a. Yg. (V.168; C.54). Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C. ]. 
b. 6 (V. 165; C.61). Singapore. Dr. Dennys [P. ]. 
e-d. 2 (V. 178, 183; Sumatra. Mrs. J. Crosley [P.]. 
C, 54, 51). 
e. 9 (V.175; C.54) & Bandjermassing, L. L. Dillwyn, Esq. 
her. (V.183; C. 54). Borneo. [Pa 
tf. Yg. (V. 168; C. 61). Java. J. Bowring, Esq. [P.]. 
B. Black above, with five narrow yellow longitudinal lines 
a. Yg.(V.197; C.61). Sumatra, 
b-c. 6 (V. 171; C. 59) Nias. 
& yg. (V.171; C.61). 
d. 9 (V.175; C. 53). Borneo, Sir 4. Low [C. |. 
C. Markings disappearing in the adult, which is dark brown above, 
with a somewhat ill-defined light vertebral stripe. (S.meyerinkiz, 
Steind.) 
a. 9 (V. 158; C. 48). Tawi-Tawi, Sooloo Ids. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 
