loreal present. Maxillary teeth about 10, nearly equal; mandi- 

 bular teeth subequal. Body round, covered with smooth scales 

 without pits, in 17 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail short; sub- 

 caudals in two rows. 



Distribution. Borneo. 



A single species. 



i. Oreocalamus hanitschi Boulenger. 



Oreocalamus Hanitschi, Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) IV 1899, p. 452, figured 

 in Journ. Straits Branch Asiat. Soc. 34, 1900 pi. I, fig. 3. 



Snout pointed; rostral as deep as broad, visible from above; 

 internasals longer than its distance from the tip of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals; nostril close to the rostral, between 

 the nasal and the first 

 labial; loreal more long 

 than deep, wedged in 

 below between the se- 

 cond and third labials; 

 one prae- and one post- 

 ocular; temporals r + 2; 

 eight upper labials, 

 fourth and fifth entering 

 the eye, seventh largest; 

 four lower labials in 

 contact with the ante- 



Fig. 57. Oreocalamus hanitschi Blgr. 



After a figure by BOULENGER published 



by HANITSCH. 



rior chin-shields; latter 

 longer than the poste- 

 rior. Scales in 17 rows; ventrals 127; anal entire; subcaudals 26. 



Blackish-brown above. Lower surface yellowish-white with 

 a few scattered brown dots; outer ends of ventrals blackish; 

 tail brown beneath with a dark median streak. Length of head 

 and body 325 mm.; tail 50 mm. (After BOULENGER; not 

 seen by me). 



Habitat: Borneo (Mt. Kina Balu 4200 feet). 



Only one specimen known. 



31. Idiopholis Mocquard. 



(MOCQUARD, Le Naturaliste p. 35, 1892). 



Head not distinct from neck; eye very small; pupil round; 

 nostril between two scales; internasals small; an azygous shield 



