186 



COLTTBRTT)^. 



A. Head dark brown, separated from the body by a yellow collar ; 



dorsal stripes yellowish. (C. geminatus, Boie.) 



a. 5 (V. 162 ; C. ?). Java. Leyden Museum. 



B. Head dark brown ; dorsal stripes yellowish, each with a series of 



black spots. (L. melanocepJialvs, Gray, H. prionotus, Cant., 

 E. ornatus, Jan.) 



b. d (V. 152; C. ?). Singapore? Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



(Type of L. melanocepludus.) 

 e, (/. (^ (V. 149 ; C. 103) Singapore? ' Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



&hgr. (V.144;C.?). 

 e. Hgr. (V. 144 ; 0. 98). Singapore. Dr. Dennys [P.]. 



C. Head yellowish or reddish brown, with yellow black-edged dots ; 



body as in the preceding. {L. catenatus, Gray, E.javanicvs, 

 Bleek.) 



/. Hgr. (V. 145 ; C. 89). Java. Dr. Bleeker. 



(Type oi E. javanicus.) 

 g-h. $ (V. 166 ; C. 128) Tengger Mountains, Hr. Frulistorfer [C.J. 



&yg.(V.156;C.145). Java. 

 i. / (V. 155 ; C. ?). Sumatra. Zool. Society. 



D. Head yellowish-brown ; dorsal stripes bluish grey, each with a 



series of small black spots. (A. Jlavice^s, Gthr.) 



;fc. $ (V. 147 ; C. 93). Malay Archipelago. {Type of A. /lavicejfs.) 



l~m. $ (V. 160, 154 ; Borneo. L. L. Dillwyn, Esq. 



C. ?, ?). [P.]. 



7. Polydontophis subpunctatus. 



Seba, Thes. i. pi. xi. (1734). 



Calamaria sagittaria {non Cnnt.), Jei-don, Jottrn. As. Soc. Beng. 



xxii. 1853, p. 628. 

 Oligodon subpunctatus, Dum. 8f Bihr. vii. p. 58 (18-"4) ; Jan, Arch. 



Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 39 ; Gunth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 208 



Omt) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 48, pi. i. fig. 4 (1876) _. 

 Enicognathus melanocepbalus, part., Dinn. i.^- Bibr. f. c. p. 3.30. 

 Oligodon spinaepunctatus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, 



p. 40 ; Giihth. I. c. ; F. Mull. Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, viii. 1887, 



p. 262. 

 Enicognathus humberti, Jan, t. c. 1863, p. 275, and Icon, Gen. 16, 



pi. iv. fig. 1 (1866). 

 Ablabes humberti, Gimth. I. c. p. 228; Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



xlviii. 1879, p. 115. 

 Rhadinsea melanoeephala. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 132. 

 Polyodontophis subpunctatus, Botdeng. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 303 



(1890). 



Rostral nearly twice as broad as deep ; suture between the inter- 

 nasals a little sliorter than that between the pra^frontals ; frontal 

 longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the 



