112 REPTILES. 



t. Half-grown : not good state. East Indies. Presented by Dr. 



Packmann. 

 K. Young : not good state. East Indies. 

 X. Young. East Indies. 

 fi. Young : bad state. East Indies. From the Haslar Collection. 



9. CORYPHODON FUSCUS. 



All the scales smooth, in fourteen or sixteen rows; upper 

 labials nine. 



a. Ten feet long. Borneo. 



b. Nearly adult. Borneo. Presented by Capt. Sir E. Belcher. 



Description. — Habit slender, similar to Herpetodryas cari- 

 natus; neck rather thin, head distinct; eye large; shields of 

 crown regular ; nostril rather large, between two shields ; one to 

 three loreals, as in Cor. blumenbachii ; two anterior orbitals, the 

 upper one largest, raised on the crown, not reaching the vertical ; 

 the inferior one small, elongate, situated in the anterior, inferior 

 angle of eye ; nine upper labials, the fifth and sixth forming the 

 lower edge of eye, the seventh triangular, the eighth nearly twice 

 as large as ninth ; generally two posterior oculars, sometimes 

 the hinder process of the sixth upper labial separated and forming 

 a third post-orbital ; two pairs of temporal shields. Scales of 

 the dorsal and outer rows broad quadi'angular, those on the sides 

 more elongate, all perfectly smooth, and the longitudinal rows 

 arranged in pairs; anal bifid. Back uniform brown, shining; 

 belly uniform yellowish ; from about the middle of body on each 

 side a broad, first blackish, then black band, extending to the tip 

 of tail; tail exactly one-fourth of total length. 



Coryphodon fuscus is different from Coluber dhumna. Cantor, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839. We cannot think that he would only 

 have considered a snake with scales, arranged in pairs, as "a 

 variety of Coluber blumenbachii with uniformly smooth scales," 

 as he considers the above species in his Catalogue of Malayan 

 Reptiles, p. 74. 



10. Coryphodon carinatus. 



Coluber dhumnades. Cantor, Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, 

 p. 483, and Catal. of Mai. Reptiles, p. 74. 



Scales in fourteen or sixteen rows, the dorsal of which are 

 keeled ; upper labials eight. 



a. Adult: 10' long. Borneo. Presented by Captain Sir Edward 



Belcher. 



b. Adult. Chusan. Presented by Dr. Cantor. 



