Dark brown above, with a purplish gloss; black transverse 

 bands on the back, two scales wide, narrower than the inter- 

 spaces; each scale of the outer and some of the second row 

 with a white centre. Lower surface yellowish, with black 

 transverse bars, the outer ends of the ventrals black; a black 

 median line along the tail. Length of head and body 260 mm.; 

 tail 25 mm. (After GOUGH; not seen by me). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Langkat). 



39. Calamaria bungaroides Werner. 



Calamaria bungaroides, Werner, Zool. Anz. XXIV 1901, p. 300. 



Frontal as long as broad, three times as broad as a supra- 

 ocular in the middle, much shorter than the parietals; one 

 prae- and one postocular; six upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye; mental in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields; both pairs of chin-shields in contact. Scales in 13 rows; 

 ventrals I/O; anal entire; subcaudals 22. 



Dark grey above, with 25+4 narrow, white transverse 

 bands; two outer rows of scales white; head and point of tail 

 yellowish-white. Lower surface white, with 23+3 narrow 

 blackish cross bands, covering I 2 ventrals, some of them 

 interrupted in the middle and alternating. Length of head 

 and body 179 mm.; tail 26 mm. (After WERNER; not seen by me). 



Habitat: Java?. 



40. Calamaria schlegeli Dum. & Bibr. 



Calamaria schlegelii, Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gen. VII 1854, p. 8l. 

 Calamaria schlegelii^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. II 1894, p. 345. 



Diameter of the eye shorter than its distance from the mouth; 

 rostral more broad than deep; frontal about as broad as long, 

 three times as broad as a supraocular, shorter than the parietals; 

 no praeocular; one postocular; five upper labials, third and 

 fourth entering the eye; mental in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields; posterior chin-shields separated. Scales in 13 rows; 

 ventrals 138; anal entire; subcaudals 33. Tail ending in a point. 



Blackish above; temporal region whitish. Lower surface 

 whitish; a brown median line along the tail. Length of head 

 and body 222 mm.; tail 37 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Padang Highlands!); Borneo. 



