108. ABLABES. 283 
entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which equal or a little exceed the posterior in length. 
Seales in 15 rows. Ventrals 178-195; anal divided; subcaudals 
60-75. Brown above, with a broad dark collar and a double series 
of transverse dark spots on the anterior part of the body ; these 
markings most distinct in the young; lower parts uniform 
yellowish. 
Total length 460 millim.; tail 110. 
Himalayas from Simla to Darjeeling. 
a. 5 (V. 185; C. 63). Sikkim. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit 
[C.]. (Type.) 
fo ve.. (WSs; C60). Sikkim. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit 
[C.]. (Type of A .owenit. ) 
e-d. § (V. 189; C.74) & Darjeeling. W.T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 
her. (V. 178; C. 68). 
eon cv. 180)3"C; 71). Darjeeling. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 
Fe GoCV 182) C69) & Darjeeling. 
her. (VY. 184; C. 75). 
Gs. GAN. ADS: C. P): Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [ P.]. 
9. Ablabes baliodirus. 
Coronella baliodeira, Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 589; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 
p. 64, pl. i. figs. 9 & 10 (1857); Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 66 
(1847). 
Ablabes baliodeirus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 818 (1854); Giinth. Cat. 
p- 29 (1858), and Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 224 (1864). 
Diadophis baliodeirus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 18638, p. 268, 
and Icon. Gén. 15, pl. v. fig. 4 (1866). 
Ablabes bahodinys, var. cinctus, Fischer, Abh. naturw. Ver. Hamb, 
ix. 1886, p. 8, pl. i. fig. 2. 
Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; nasal divided ; 
eye three fourths the length of the snout; suture between the 
internasals shorter than that between the prefrontals; frontal 
longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 
parietals ; ; a small loreal, as long as deep or deeper than long ; one 
or two pre- and two postoculars ; temporals 14+2; seven upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye; four or five lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or 
shorter than the posterior. Scalesinl3rows. Ventrals 118-137; 
anal divided ; subcaudals 58-75. Brown above, usually with small 
black-edged yellow spots, sometimes with blackish cross bands or 
two series of large alternating black blotches on the anterior part 
of the body, or with two light, dark-edged streaks along the body 
and a third on the nape; head sometimes yellowish ; lips yellowish 
white, with the labial sutures black ; lower parts yellowish or coral- 
red, the brown of the upper parts usually descending to the sides of 
the ventrals, each of which may bear a black dot at the end; some- 
times a black line along the middle of the lower surface of the tail. 
Total length 400 millim.; tail 125. 
Jaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Pinang. 
