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I. Scales in 15 rows 5- D - formosus p. 64. 



II. Scales in 13 rows. 



a. Three postoculars 6. D. gastrostictus p. 64. 



b. Two postoculars. 



1. Frontal as long as its distance from the 

 tip of the snout, as long as or a little 

 shorter than the parietals ; upper lip yellow; 



subcaudals 131 159 7- D - Uneolatus p. 65. 



2. Frontal as long as its distance from the 

 tip of the snout, much shorter than the 

 parietals; upper lip white, sharply limited 



above by a black line; subcaudals 137 147. 8. D. meeki p. 66. 



3. Frontal much longer than its distance from 

 the tip of the snout, slightly shorter than 

 the parietals; upper labials yellowish-white, 

 with a dark band behind the eye; sub- 

 caudals 160 168 9. D. nouhuysi p. 66. 



i. Dendrophis pictus (Gmel.). 



Coluber pictus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I 1788, p. 1116. 

 Dendrophis pictus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. II 1894, p. 78 (s. syn.). 



Maxillary teeth 23 26; eye as long as its distance from 

 the nostril. Rostral more broad than deep, visible from above; 

 internasals as long as or slightly shorter than the praefrontals; 

 frontal as long as its distance from the rostral or the tip of 

 the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal long; one prae- 

 and two postoculars; temporals 2 + 2, I + I or I + 2; nine 

 (seven or eight) upper labials, fifth and sixth or fourth to sixth 

 entering the eye ; five (four) lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields; latter shorter than the posterior, which 

 are separated by one anterior and two posterior scales. Scales 

 in 15 rows, vertebrals about as large as the outer; ventrals 

 151 204; anal divided; subcaudals 103 174. 



Olive or brown above; a yellow lateral stripe, bordered below 

 by a dark line between the outer scales and the ventrals; a 

 black stripe on each side of the head passing through the eye 

 and widening or broken up into spots, separated by bluish- 

 green bands on the nape ; upper lip yellow. Lower surface 

 yellowish or greenish. Length of head and body 740 mm. ; 

 tail 440 mm. 



Nom. indig. Ular tambang (mal.); telampar (jav.); duwata 

 and ule lewora (Toradja-names). 



