6o 



1500 3000 feet, Agam) ; Banka ! ; Riou!; Natuna Islands; 

 Borneo (Bulangan river, Sandakan Bay, Baram river, Mt. Dulit, 

 Sebruang Valley, Kuching, Sungei duri, Montrado, Singkawang, 

 Sintang, Kapuas river, Kutei, Buntok, Balikpapan, Bandjer- 

 massin, Tandjong) ; Java (Batavia, Anjer, Depok, Darok, Bantam, 

 Gadok, Buitenzorg !, Sukabumi !, Cheribon !, Pekalongan !, Sala- 

 tiga!, Garum!, Ambarawa, Idju !, Kediri !, Ngawi, Surabaja!); 

 Bali; Lombok; Sumbawa; Flores !; Alor; Timor; Rotti; Buton; 

 Celebes (Manado, Gorontalo, Kema, Kandari); Sangir Islands 

 (Siao); Ternate; Misol ; Ceram; Ambon!. Sulu Islands; 

 Philippines; Penang; Malay Peninsula; Andamans; Nicobars; 

 Siam; Burma; India. 



A widely distributed and common snake, living on trees, 

 among bushes, often near rice-fields; it feeds on lizards and 

 frogs and is ovoviviparous. 



var. striata Cohn. 



Dendorophis pictus var. striata, Cohn, Zool. Anz. XXIX 1906, p. 543. 

 Dendrophis pictus var. striata, de Rooy, in Kleiweg de Zwaan, Craniolog. 

 Untersuch. Niasischer Schsdel 1915, p. 299, with fig. 



Snout shorter and broader than in the preceding one ; chin- 

 shields short and broad, posterior pair separated by irregular 

 scales in the posterior part. Keel of the ventral shields be- 

 ginning immediately on the throat; ventrals 152 163; sub- 

 caudals 103 142. 



Light brown above, with black oblique bars from the vertebral 

 shields to the ventrals; no yellow lateral stripe; head darker, 

 a black stripe on each side, passing through the eye ; lips yellow. 

 Lower surface grey with lighter ventral keels or sand-colour 

 with brown keels; throat yellow. Length of head and body 

 525 mm.; tail 250 mm. 



Habitat: Nias!; Sumatra; (Deli!, Sungei Putih near Ser- 

 dang!, Assahan, Djambi !). 



2. Dendrophis calligaster Gunther. 



Dendrophis calligaster, Gunther, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3) XX 1867, p. 53. 

 Dendrophis calligaster, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. II 1894, p. 80 (s. syn.). 

 Dendrelaphis schlenckeri, D. Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales XXIII 

 1898, p. 361. 



Maxillary teeth 20 26; eye not longer than its distance 

 from the posterior border of the nostril. Rostral more broad 



