2o8 COLUERIDiE. 



d. Yg. (V. 148; C. ?). Philippines. Hr. Salmin [C.j. 



e. 2 {V-VjO; C. 85). Negros. Dr. A. B. Meyer 



[C.]. 



B. Belly without clots. 



/. 2 (V. 154; C. ?). Puerto Priucesa. A. Everett, Esq. 



[C.]. 



63. Tropidonotus chrysargus. 



Tropidonotiis chrysargus, Schlec/. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 312, pi. xii. 



figs. 6 &7 (1837); GUnth. Cat p. 70 (1858); Fischer, Arch. f. 



Nat. 1885, p. 57, pi. iv. fig. 2 ; Bouhng. Faun. IncL, Hcpt. p. 34.5 



(1890). 

 jimceus, Cantor, Cat. Mai Eept. ^. 93 (1847); BIyth, Jonrn. 



As. Soc. Beng. xxiv. 1855, p. 716; Giinth. Bcpt. Brit. hid. 



p. 268, pi. xxii. fig. F (1864) ; Stoliczka, Juvmi. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 



1871, p. 4.34. 

 Leptopbis albomaculatus, Diwi. S,- Bib?\ vii. p. 541 (1854), 

 Amphiesma chrysargum, part., Dum. c^ Bidr. t. c. p. 739. 

 Tropidonotus dipsas, Blyth, Jvurn. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1854, 



p. 297. 

 ? Tropidonotus zeLrinus, Bh/th, I. c. p. 297. 

 Amphiesma chrysargum, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, 



p. 234. 



platyceps, Jan, Icon. Gen. 29, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1868). 



Tropidonotus maculatus, yar. torquatus, Macqua)-d, Kouv. Arch. 



Mus. (3) ii. 1890, p. 139. 



Eye large. Rostral just visible from above ; interiiasals as long 

 as broad or a little longer, nearly as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal 

 oace and two thirds to once and three fourths as long as broad, 

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

 parietals ; loreal nearly as deep as long ; one or two praeoculars ; 

 three postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 or 2 + 3 ; nine or eight upper 

 labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth, or third, fourth, and fifth, entering 

 the eye ; five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, 

 all strongly keeled, Yeutrals 143-175; aual divided; subcaudals 

 60-93. Brownish or olive-green above, usually with a series of 

 yellow spots or short transverse bars along each side of the back ; 

 young with black spots and cross bars, which become indistinct 

 with age ; upper lip white, with the sutures between the labials 

 black, the white colour extending as a more or less distinct angular 

 or crescentic band on the nape ; belly yellowish, with or without 

 blackish dots, and with a more or less distinct series of small black 

 spots along each side ; specimen i has the ventrals olive, edged with 

 yellowish and three dark lines run along the belly. 



Total length 680 millim. ; tail 190. 



From the Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Burma, and Southern 

 China to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, 



«. $ (V. 168; C.?). >'eral, R H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



