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Olive-brown above; yellowish below. Length of head and 

 body 295 mm.; tail 95 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Paris Museum. 

 Habitat: N. Borneo (Mt. Kina Balu!). 



8. Xenochrophis Giinther. 



(GUNTHER, Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 273, 1864). 



Head slightly distinct from neck; eye small; pupil round; 

 nostril directed upwards and slightly outwards; nasal undivided; 

 a pair of internasals; loreal present. Maxillary teeth 19 or 20, 



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Fig. 30. Xenochrophis viperinus Schenkel X 9 /io- 



subequal; anterior mandibular teeth largest. Body round or a 

 little compressed, covered with keeled scales, without pits, in 

 19 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail moderate; subcaudals in 

 two rows. 



Distribution. India; Malay Peninsula; Sumatra. 



A single species in the Indo-Australian region. 



i. Xenochrophis viperinus Schenkel. 



Xenochropliis vipcrimts, Schenkel, Verb. Ges. Basel XIII 1901, p. 155. 



Head triangular, snout slightly turned up; canthus rostralis 

 distinct, loreal region concave; rostral twice as broad as deep, 

 visible from above ; nasal undivided, but traces of a dividing 

 groove present; internasals about as long as broad, their outer 

 border parallel, not convergent; praefrontals larger than the 

 internasals; frontal longer than its distance from the tip of 



