108. ABLABES. 981 
5. Ablabes stoliczke. 
Ablabes stoliczke, W. L. Sclater, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ix. 1891, 
p. 234, pl. vi. fig. 1; Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) xiii. 1893, 
p- 325, 
Snout rather long and much depressed, twice as long as the dia- 
meter of the eye; rostral much broader than deep, visible from 
above ; nasal undivided, thrice as long as deep ; internasals a little 
shorter than the prefrontals; frontal not broader than the supra- 
ocular, nearly as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 
shorter than the parietals; a small loreal; one pra- and two post- 
oculars; temporals 1+2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 
entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 15 
rows.  Ventrals 150-154; anal divided; subcaudals 116-134. 
Pale olive-brown above ; upper lip and lower parts yellowish white ; 
a black streak from the eye along the temple and the side of the 
neck, separating the brown colour of the upper parts from the 
white of the lower. 
Total length 600 millim. ; tail 255. 
Mountains of Burma and Assam. 
6. Ablabes tricolor. 
Herpetodryas tricolor, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 187, pl. vi. figs. 16- 
18 (1837). 
Cyclophis tricolor, Giinth. Cat. p. 121 (1858), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1872, p. 590 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 1873, p. 122. 
Liopeltis tricolor, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 559; Jan, Icon. 
Gén. 31, pl. vi. fig. 2 (1869). 
Snout rather long and depressed, twice as long as the diameter 
of the eye; rostral broader than deep, visible from above; nasal 
undivided ; suture between the internasals as long as or a little 
shorter than that between the prefrontals ; frontal not broader than 
the supraocular, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 
shorter than the parietals; no loreal, the prefrontal in contact with 
the second and third labials; one pre- and two postoculars ; 
temporals 142; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the 
eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields, which are a little shorter than the posterior. Scales in 
15 rows. Ventrals 140-187 ; anal divided; subcaudals 103-130. 
Olive or greenish above; a black streak on each side of the head 
and anterior part of the body, passing through the eye; upper lip 
and lower parts yellowish white ; a pale olive streak along each side 
of the belly. 
Total length 560 millim.; tail 220. 
Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
a: 6 (V: 1405". 118): Java. Leyden Museum. (One of the 
types.) 
b. 2 (V. 187; C. 108). Java. A. Scott, Esq. [P.1. 
