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yellow variegations. Length of head and body 390 mm.; 

 tail 80 mm. 



Fig. 60. Rhabdophidium forsteni (D. & B.) X 3 /4- Side view of head - 



Habitat: Celebes! (Tomohon!, Rurukan). 

 34. Pseudorhabdium Jan. 



(Jan. Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. II p. 10, 1862). 



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

 very small; internasals small; loreal absent; praeocular small 

 or absent; temporals absent; the parietals in contact with the 

 labials. Maxillary teeth 10 12, equal; anterior mandibular 

 teeth longer than posterior. Body round, covered with smooth 

 scales without pits, in 15 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail short; 

 subcaudals in two rows. 



Distribution. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago; Philippines. 



A single species in the Indo-Australian region. 



i. Pseudorhabdium longiceps (Cant.). 



Calamaria longiceps^ Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVI 1847, p. 910, 



pi. 40, fig. I. 

 Pseudorhabdium longiceis^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. II 1894, p. 329. 



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

 above; internasals small; frontal as long as or shorter than 

 its distance from the tip of the snout, shorter than the parietals, 

 more than twice as broad as the supraocular; praeocular small 



