more long than broad, shorter than the parietals; loreal more 

 long than deep; two prae- and two postoculars; temporals 

 2 + 2; eight or nine upper labials, fourth and fifth entering 

 the eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields. Scales in 19 rows; ventrals 207 222; anal entire; 

 subcaudals 74 pair. 



Whitish above with a reddish tinge, scales of the back brown 

 or with brown base or bordered with brown, sometimes partly 

 dark-banded; head brown, the scales light-edged. Lower surface 

 white. Length of head and body 1220 mm.; tail (broken) 180 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Lorentz river!); Schouten Islands 

 (Mysore). 



2. Stegonotus modestus (Schlegel). 



Lycodon modestus^ Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 1837, p. 119, pi. IV, fig. 16 & 17. 

 Stegonotus modesttis^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 366 (s. syn.)} Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Geneva (2) XVIII 1897, p. 704. 



Lycodon cucullatum^ Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gen. VII 1854, p. 376. 

 Stegonotus cucullatns, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 365 (s. syn.). 

 Stegonotus reticulatus, Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) XVI 1895, p. 31. 



Rostral more broad than deep, visible from above; inter- 



Fig. 49. Stegonotus modestus (Schleg.) X Va- Side v ' ew * head. 



nasals about two thirds the length of the praefrontals; frontal 



