306 



COLUBEIDJ;;. 



Brachyorrhos jobionsis, Peters S,' Dana, I. c. p. .^8.'). 

 Atractocephalus raftrayi, tSauvnc/e, Bull. Soc. I'/iilom. (7) iii. 1879, 



p. 62. 

 Oxyorrhos fusiformis, Fischer, J^erh. nat, J\:r. Ilamh. (2) iii. 1879, 



p. 89, pi. ii. 

 Brachyorrhos albiis, var. conjimctus, Fisdicr, Arch. f. Nat. 1880, 



p. 226. 



Snout obtusely aouminate ; rostral as deep as broad, just visible 

 from above ; intei'nasals as long as or a little longer than the suture 

 between the pra^frontals ; the internasals are fused to a single shield 

 in some specimens from J^ew Guinea ; frontal longer than broad, 

 longer than its distance from the end of the snoiit, shorter than the 

 parietals, twice to twice and a half' as broad as the supraocular ; 

 praeocular distinct or fused with the prajfrontal ; two postoeulars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2 or 2 + 3 ; six or seven upper labials, third or fourth 

 or third and fourth entering the eye ; a single pair of chin-shields, 

 in contact with four labials. Scales in 17 or 19 rows. Ventrals 

 160-182; anal divided (rarely entire) ; subcaudals 20-46. Adult 

 uniform brown above, yellowish interiorly ; young with an inter- 

 rupted yellow band across the occiput and a brown streak or series 

 of brown spots along the middle of the belly and tail. 



Total length 190 millim. : tail 65. 



Java, Timor, Moluccas, New Guinea. 



d. 



S (Sc. 19 ; V. 170; C. 36: a Timor, 

 praeocular ; 4th labial entering 

 the eye ; a single temporal in 

 contact with the postoeulars). 



S (Sc. 19 ; V. 177 ; C. 36 ; no Ternate. 

 prteocular ; 3rd labial entering 

 the eye ; two temporals in con- 

 tact with the postoeulars). 



$ (Sc. 19; V. 182; C. 27; no Ternate. 

 praeocular ; 3rd labial entering 

 the eye ; two temporals in con- 

 tact with the postoeulars). 



Yg. (Sc. 19; V. 178; C. 27; Amboyna. 

 no praeocular ; 3rd and 4th 

 labials entering the eye ; two 

 temporals in contact with the 

 postoeulars). 



Leyden Museum. 



H.M.S. ' Challen?er.' 



H.M.S. ' Challeno-er.' 



Dr. Bleeker. (Type 

 of lihahdion (jas- 

 trotcenia.) 



30. ELAPOIDES. 



Elapoides, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 519 ; Wa<jl. Sijst. Amph. p. 194 (1830) ; 



Dmn. ^ Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. p. 122 (1854) ; Gimth. Cat. Col. S71. 



p. 15 (1858). 

 Calamaria, part., Schleg. Phjs. Serp. ii. p. 25 (1837). 

 Elapoides, part., Jem, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fhys. ii. 1862, p. 20. 



Maxillary bone very short, not extending anteriorly beyond tlie 

 palatine, with about 20 small and closely set equal teeth ; mandi- 



