121. CALAMARIA. 341 
caudals 15-28. Tail obtuse. Dark brown or black above, uniform 
or with yellowish spots, or yellowish with brown spots; lower parts 
blackish, uniform or variegated with yellow, or yellow in the middle 
and black on the sides. 
Total length 440 millim. ; tail 30. 
Sumatra, Java, Celebes. 
A. Dark brown or black above, with yellow spots; lower parts 
black and yellow. 
a-b. g (V. 170; C. 27) Manado, Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 
& 9 (V. 193; C. 19). 
B. Dark brown with yellow spots above, uniform black beneath. 
e. 2 (V. 198; C. 15). Java. Dr. Ploem [C.]. 
C. Dark brown above, with small black spots or lines, without 
yellow spots or with only a few on the anterior part of the 
body; ventrals yellow in the middle, black on the sides. 
Gee uC V loo 34.510). Java. Dr. Ploem [C.]. 
e-g, h-v. 3 (V. 158, 156, Rarahan, Java. Dr.” Beccary (Ca. 
156, 163; C. 26, 28, 26, Marquis G. Doria 
25) & 2 (V. 183; C. 15). ‘[P.}. 
k-l, m-o. $ (V. 164,162; Mt. Singalang, Dr. Beceari [(C.j)5 
C. 24, 24) & 2 (V. 178, Sumatra, Marquis G. Doria 
174, 179: C. 20, 18, 19). Bal 
p. & (Vv. 196 : C. 18). Manado, Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 
D. Uniform black above and below. 
gq. & (V. 151; C. 22). Fort de Kock, Dr. Bleeker, 
Sumatra. (Type of C. monochrous.) 
15. Calamaria leucogaster. 
Calamaria leucogaster, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxi. 1860, 
p- 293; Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xv. 1865, p. 89; Edeling, 
Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxxi. 1870, p. 381. 
arcticeps, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, p. 25, 
pl. vi. fig. C. 
Snout rather pointed; rostral as deep as broad, well visible from 
above ; frontal longer than broad, shorter than the parietals, about 
twice as broad as the supraocular; one pre- and one postocular ; 
diameter of the eye equal to its distance from the mouth; five 
upper labials, second larger than first or third, third and fourth 
entering the eye, or (spec. d) six upper labials, fourth and fifth 
entering the eye; first pair of lower labials forming a suture behind 
the symphysial ; two pairs of chin-shields, in contact with each other. 
Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 1383-151; anal entire; subcaudals 14- 
17. Tailendinginapoint. Brown above; nape blackish, followed 
by a narrow yellow collar; tail with two blackish transverse spots ; 
uniform yellowish inferiorly. 
Total length 200 millim.; tail 18. 
Sumatra, “Borneo, 
