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COLUURID^E. 



anal divided ; subeaudals 59-79. Reddish brown or olive above, 

 with a more or less marked blaekish or dark ohve vertebral stripe, 

 and small blackish spots ; an oblique jellow dark-edged band on 

 each side of the nape, the two converging posteriorly ; upper labials 

 yellow, with black sutures ; lower parts yellow, with a lateral series 

 of brown dots or short lines. 



Total length 440 raillira. ; tail 100. 



Mantchuria, Japan, Formosa. 



Hr. Dcirries [C.]. 



A. Adams, Esq. [C.]. 



Leyden Museum. 



Dr. Bleeker. 

 H.M.S. 'Challenger.' 

 Il.M.S. ' Challenger.' 

 R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



20. Tropidonotus conspicillatus. 



Tropidonotus conspicillatus, Gilnth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 590, 

 fig. ; lioetfc/. Ber. Offenb. Vet: Nat. 1892, p. 109. 



Eye moderate. Xostril in an entire or semidividcd nasal ; rostral 

 twice as broad as deeji, scarcely visible from above ; internasals as 

 long as broad or a little longer, broadly truncate in front, nearly as 

 long as the pra^frontals ; frontal once and a half to once and two 

 thirds as long as broad, a little longer than its distance from the end 

 of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal deeper than long ; 

 one pnc- and three postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 (or l-f3); eight 

 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which arc shorter 

 than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, all keeled (or outer row 

 smooth). Vcntrals 138-147 ; anal divided ; subeaudals 40-53. 

 Brown or reddish above, with a dark network and two longitudinal 

 series of yellowish spots or cross-lines; a yellow, black-edged streak 

 along the upper lip, and another from the eye to the angle of the 

 mouth ; nape blackish, with two interrupted yellow transverse 

 streaks ; yellowish below, uniform or speckled with brown. 



Total length 400 millim. ; tail 75. 



Borneo, Sumatra*. 



a-b. 6 (V. 142 ; C. 49) Matang. 1 



& $ (V. 140; C. 49). MType^*-) 



c. Hgr. (V. 142 ; C. ?). Borneo. L. L. Uilhvvn, Esq. [P.]. \ 



d. $'(V. 147 ; C. 53). Mt.Duht, C. Hose, E&'q. [C.]. 



Borneo. 



* I have examined a specimen from Sinkef) Isd., preserved in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



