366 C0LU15R1D.E. 



longer than deep ; two prre- and two postoculars ; temporals 1+2 

 or "2 + 2 ; nine Tipper Libials, fourth and fifth entering the ej-e ; four 

 or live lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 17 

 rows. Yentrals 190-207; • anal entire; subcaudals 73-90 pairs, 

 lirown above, yellowish beneath ; usually a brown spot at tlie outer 

 end of each ventral. 



Total length 1080 millim. ; tail 180. 



Papuasia and Cape York. 



a-b. Hgr. (V. 202, 204 ; Fly River, New Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.]. 



C. 75, 78). Guinea. 



c-e. S (V. 196 ; C. ?) Murray Island, Rev. S. iMacfarlane [C.]. 



& ligr. (V. 198, 197 ; Torres Straits. 



C.?,79). 



/. Hgr. (V. 204; C. 79). Capelork. (Type of Zamenophis 



australis.) 



2. Stegonotus modestns. 



Lvcodon roodestus, part., Sclda/. Phys. Serjj. ii. p. 119, pi. iv. figs. 

 '16 & 17 (1837). 



modestum, Dum. l^- Bibi: vii. j). 379 (1854). 



■ lividum, Dum. ^5J• Bibr. t. c. p. 381 ; Jcm^ Icon, Gen. 36, pi. iv. 



fig. 4 (1870). 

 Coronella rosenbergii, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. hid. xxii. 18C0, 



p. 37. 

 Ablabes greineri, Bleek. I. c. p. 43. 



Coluber holocbrous, Gihith. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1803, p. 59, fig. 

 Erachyrbyton modestum, Jan, Icon. Gen. 35, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1870). 

 Lycodon parvus, A. B. Meyer, Mon. Bed. Ac. 1874, p. 137. 

 aruensis, Doria, Ann. Mm. Geneva, vi. 1874, p. 352, pi. xii. 



fig. i ; Sauvaye, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 1879, p. 61. 

 Pseudolycodon lividus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1876, p. 533. 

 Lielaphis modestus, part., Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 129. 

 modestus, Peters ^- Doria, Ann. Mas. Genova, viii. 1878, 



p. 397. 

 lividus, Peters ^- Doria, I. c. p. 390. 



llostral much broader than deep, the portion visible from above 

 measuring about one fourth its distance from the frontal ; inter- 

 nasals about two thirds the length of the pra;frontals ; frontal as 

 long as broad or a little longer, as long as or a little shorter than 

 its distance from the end of the snout, much shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; two (rarely one) prre- and two 

 postoculars; temporals 1 + 2 or 2 + 2; seven or eight (rarely nine) 

 upper labials, third and fourth (rarely fourth and fifth) entering 

 the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as or a little longer thau the 

 posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Yentrals 175-212 ; anal entire ; 

 subcaudals 08-100 pairs. Upper parts brown, upper lip and lower 

 ])arts yellowish ; a brown spot may be present at the outer end of 

 each ventral. 



Total length 1120 millim. ; tail 200. 



Moluccas and Pai^uasia. 



