149 



praeocular and temporals absent. Maxillary teeth 13, about 

 equal; mandibular teeth subequal. Body round, covered with 

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

 short, with an obtuse point; subcaudals in two rows. 



Distribution. Batjan. 



A single species. 



i. Calamorhabdium kiikenthali Bottger. 



Calamorhabdium kuekcnthali, Bottger, Katalog. Kept. Samml. Mus. Senckenb. 

 II 1898, p. 82; Abh. Senckenb. Ges. XXV 1900, p. 360, Taf. XV, fig. 7. 



Snout pointed; rostral much more deep than broad, visible 

 from above, separating the nasals; frontal as long as its distance 

 from the tip of the snout, shorter than the parietals; inter- 

 nasals and praeocular absent; post- 

 ocular small; temporals absent; five 

 upper labials, third and fourth entering 

 the eye; mental in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields; latter in contact 

 with three lower labials, longer than 

 the posterior, which are in contact 

 anteriorly. Scales in 15 rows; ventrals 

 125 140; anal entire; subcaudals 

 10 17. 



Blackish-grey above, iridescent; the 

 scales of the flanks with whitish centre; 

 lips whitish; a broad, indistinctly bor- 

 dered, whitish collar, interrupted in 

 the middle. Lower surface whitish with 



blackish square spots and black posterior borders of the scales; 

 a median black line along the tail. Length of head and body 

 195 mm.; tail 10 mm. (After BOTTGER; not seen by me). 



Habitat: Batjan. 



37. Calamaria Boie. 



(BoiE, in Ferussac, Bull. Sc. Nat. IX p. 236, 1826). 



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

 very small; internasals and loreal absent; praeocular present 

 or absent; temporals absent, parietals in contact with the 

 labials. Maxillary teeth 8 u, about equal; anterior mandibular 

 teeth longer than posterior. Body round, covered with smooth 



Fig. 63. Calamorhabdium 

 kiikenthali Bttgr. 

 After BOTTGER. 



