200 COLUBRID^. 



« i. 2 (V. 13o: C. 80) & S. Canara. Col. Baddome [C.]. 



vg. (V. 134: C. 1)0). 



c'd. 2 (V. 140, 136; C. Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.l. 



!»2, 90). 



e. Hgr., bad state. Anamallays. Col. Beddome fC.]. 



/. d (V. 1.37; C. 82). ? 



65. Tropidonotus maculatus. 



Tropidonotus maculatus, -E't?e/?/?r/, iVe<7er^. Tijdschr. Di'erk. ii. ISGJ, 



p. 203: Giinf/i. Zool. Rec. 1872, p. 74. 

 Ampliiesma siibstolatiim, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. PJiys. iii. 1865, 



p. 233, and Icon. Gen. 29, pi. i. fig. 1 (18n8). 

 Tropidonotus sundaneusis, Gi'mth. Ann. Sf Ma<j. N. II. (3) xv. 18G5, 



p. 95, pi. ii. tig. D. 

 saruAvaceusis {non Giinth.), Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. 1885, p. 54. 



Form slender. Eye very large. Rostral broader than deep, 

 scarcely visible from above ; internasals as broad as long, trapezoid, 

 as long as the prefrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as 

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

 the parietals ; loreal as deep as long, or deejjer ; one prae- and three 

 ])03toculars ; temporals 2 + 3; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth entering the eye : five lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin- shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales 

 in 19 rows, all strongly keeled. Vcntrals 144-156; anal divided ; 

 subcaudals 95-113. Olive above, with four longitudinal series of 

 small square black spots and two of yellowish ones ; upper labials 

 yellowish with black siitures ; lower parts yellowish, the shields 

 edged with black. 



Total length 810 milHm. ; tail 270. 



Malay Peninsula, Sumati'a, Borneo. 



a. Yg. (V. 146; C. 113). Malacca. D. F. A. Hervev, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 A. $ (V. 145; C.95). Siboga, Sumatra. Dr. Bleeker. 



(Type of T. sundanoisis.) 

 c. Yg. (V. 140 ; C. lOS). Mt. Dulit, Borneo. ' C. Hose, Esq. [C.]. 



60. Tropidonotus chrysargoides. (Plate XYI. fig. 1.) 



Amphiesma chrysargum, part., Diim. S,- Bibr. \\\. p. 739 (1854). 

 Tropidonotus chrvsargoides, Giinth. Cat. p. 71 (1858) ; Fischer, 



,4/t//./. A«f. 1882, p. 284. 

 Anipbie.^ma chrvsargoides, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. I'hi/s. iii. 1865, 



p. 236. 



Eye rather large. Rostral broader than deep, scarcely visible 

 from above ; internasals longer than broad, broadly truncate in 

 front, as long as the pra^frontals ; frontal once and a half as long as 

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

 the snout, a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep 

 or a little deeper; one pne- and three postoculars ; temporals 



