32% 
I. 
3y 
Maxitilary@fiteethless: than’35¢* ‘no white; “vertical bar in 
front and behind eye Amphiesma 
Maxillary teeth more than 40; a prominent white, vertical 
bar over preocular and fourth supralabial, bar narrowly 
edged with black Amphiesmoides 
(A single species: A. ornaticeps) 
Ahaetulla 
Dorsal scale rows 13-13-11 or 9 near vent gorei 
Dorsal scale rows 15-15-11 or 9 near vent 2 
Supralabials 9, rarely 8,. fourth to sixth. touch eye; 
ventrals 167-200; caudals 127-164 putus 
Supralabials 7 or 8, only one touches eye; ventrals 153-175; 
caudals 85-105 subocularis 
Amphiesma 
Temporals present 2 
Temporals absent, or a single small scale between parietal 
and fifth upper labial atemporalis 
Scale rows 17 throughout sauteri 
Scale rows 19 anteriorly and at mid-body, 17 near vent 3 
Each ventral with 3 large blackish-brown spots forming 3 
dotted lines on belly, sometimes median one not’ clear; a 
pair of light stripes on back modesta 
Ventrals without large spots, or with scattered small dots 
4 
Orange-yellow narrow crossbars on_ back, no_ longitudinal 
Stripes optata 
Not as above 5) 
Many dark crossbars or squarish spots on back between light 
longitudinal stripes 6 
Not as above ef 
A white streak behind eye extending posteriorly to connect 
with dorsal stripe; subcaudals 94-105 boulengeri 
No white streak behind eye; subcaudals 52-83 stolata 
Back light brown, with 3 conspicuous black stripes; ventrals 
141-152 miyajimae 
Color otherwise 8 
No light stripes or light dotted lines on body 9 
With light stripes or light dotted lines 10 
Upper® i abialis: 317, lower labials 7; ventral 147-153; 
subcaudals 59-66 vibakari 
Upper labials 8, lower labials 10; ventrals 174-217; 86-107 
subcaudals platyceps 
Body with alternating light and dark stripes octolineata 
No more than two stripes on body 11 
Subcaudals less than 78, ventrals usually less than 161 12 
Subcaudals more than 78, ventrals more than 165 14 
No light, longitudinal streak or stripe on head behind eye 
popei 
A light streak or stripe behind eye eS 
Light longitudinal streak on side of head well-separated 
from eye craspedogaster 
Narrow, light, longitudinal stripe beginning at rear or 
below eye khasiensis 
