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4. Dipsas, Auct. 



Body and tad generally compressed, elongate; head much 

 depressed, triangular, broad behind, very distinct from neck ; 

 generally one loreal; one anterior, generally two posterior oculars; 

 rostral moderate ; scales moderate, in nineteen to twenty-seven 

 rows, smooth, moderately imbricate, in not very oblique rows ; 

 those of the vertebral series larger ; anal entire ; subcaudals two- 

 rowed. Pupil elliptical ; nostril moderate, between two shields. 

 Posterior maxillary teeth longest, grooved. East Indies ; South 

 America ; Africa ; Australia. 



Imantodes, Triglyphodon, Dipsas, sp. = Dipsadiens, pt., Dum. 

 SfBibr. vii. p. 1053. Dipsas, sp., Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 549 ; Cuv. 

 RegneAnim.; JVagl. Nat. Syst. Amph.-p.lSl ; Schlegel, Ess. ii. 

 p. 257- Dendtophis, sp., Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 54. Bungarus, sp., 

 Oppel, Ann. Mais. d'Hist. Nat. xvi. p. 392. Hurna, sp., Daud. 

 Rept. v. p. 277 ; Merr. Tent. p. 93. Natrix, sp., Coluber, sp., 

 auct. prior. 



1. Dipsas multimaculata. 



Russell, bid. Serp. ii. t. 23. Dipsas multimaculata, Reinwardt ; 

 Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 559 ; Schleg. Ess. pi. 11. f. 4, 5, and Abbildg. 

 t. 45. f. 13-15 ; Dum. $ Bibr. vii. p. 1 139. 



Scales in nineteen rows ; anal entire. Ground-colour greyish or 

 olive ; on each side of the back a series of large brown rounded 

 or polygonal blotches ; a second series of smaller spots near the 

 abdomen ; crown of the head with an arrow-shaped brown spot ; 

 a streak of the same colour from the back edge of eye to the 

 angle of mouth. 



a. Adult. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



b. Half-grown. Hongkong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



c. d. Adult : discoloured. Asia. Old Collection. 



e. Adult : not good state. Asia. Old Collection. 



2. Dipsas dendrophila. 



Seba, i. 21. 1 ; Scheuchz. iv. t. 662. Coluber peruvianus, Shaw, 

 Gen. Zool. iii. t. 122. Dipsas dendrophila, Reinwardt ; Boie, 

 Isis, 1827, p- 549 ; Wagl. Syst. der Amph. p. 181, and Icones, t. 8 ; 

 Filippi, Catal.; Schleg. Ess. t. 11. f. 1-3, and Abbildg. t. 45. 



f. 1-9 ; Hoeven, Handb. t. 15. f. 9 (anat.) ; Cantor, Catal. p. 76. 

 Dipsas indica, Cuv. Rtgne Anim. Triglyphodon dendrophilum, 

 Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 1036. Triglyphodon gemmicinctum, Dum. 

 $Bibr. vii. p. 1091. 



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