348 COLUBRID. 
second and fourth largest, second and third entering the eye; 
symphysial in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin- 
shields separated from each other. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 
181; anal entire; subcaudals 17. End of tail obtuse. Dark 
brown above, each scale with a lighter dot; a yellowish collar, 
interrupted in the middle, some distance behind the head; upper 
lip and lower parts uniform yellowish. 
Total length 185 millim. ; tail 13. 
Java. 
a. & (V. 181; C.17). Java, Dz, Ploem [C.}. (Type.) 
28. Calamaria brevis. (Prare XIX. fig. 3.) 
Calamaria quadrimaculata, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 4 (1858). 
Rostral as deep as broad, well visible from above ; frontal longer 
than broad, nearly as long as the parietals, once and a half as broad)” 
as the supraocular; one pre- and one postocular; diameter of 
eye exceeding its distance from the mouth; four upper labials, 
second and fourth largest, second and third entering the eye; first 
lower labial in contact with its fellow behind the sy vmphy sial; two 
pairs of chin-shields, in contact with each other. Scales in 13 
rows. Ventrals 134; anal entire; subcaudals 19. End of tail 
obtuse. Pale brown above, with darker dots ; yellowish inferiorly, 
with a few black spots. 
Total length 125 millim. ; tail 10. 
Hab. 
a. 3 (V. 134; C. 19). Lae 
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29. Calamaria pavimentata. 
Calamaria pavimentata, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 71 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. 
Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 7, and Leo Gén. 10, pl. i. fig. 9 
(1865) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind. “Rept. p. 282°(1890). 
quadrimaculata, Dum. § Bibr. t.c. p. 73; Jan, Wl. ce. fig. 10; 
Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 197 (1864). 
—— siamensis, Giinth. l.c. p. 196; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. 
p. 140 (1876) ; Boettg. Ber. Offend. Ver. Nat. 1885, p. 121. 
Rostral as deep as broad, well visible from above ; frontal longer 
than broad, shorter than the parietals, twice and a half as broad as 
the supraocular ; one prae- and one postocular; the diameter of the 
eye nearly equals its distance from the mouth ; four upper labials, 
second and third 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 140-182 ; 
anal entire; subcaudals 13-27. ‘Tail pointed. Reddish brown 
above, with five dark longitudinal lines or series of spots; nape 
dark brown, separated from the back by a yellow collar; a pair 
of yellow spots on the base and another at the end of the tail. 
Total length 320 millim. ; tail 15. 
Java, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Canton, 
