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with light borders to the shields; usually a dark line along 

 the tail. Length of head and body 305 mm.; tail 15 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Labuan); Java (Buitenzorg). Penang; 

 Malay Peninsula; S. China; Siam; Burma. 



46. Calamaria melanota Jan. 



Calamaria linnaei vars. melanota and gastrogramma, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. 



Phys. II 1862, p. 5, pi. V. 

 Calamaria melanota, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. II 1894, p. 349. 



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

 rostral as deep as broad; frontal as broad as long, three or 

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

 one prae- and one postocular; four upper labials, second and 

 third entering the eye, second and fourth largest; mental and 

 three lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; 

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

 133 182; anal entire; subcaudals 16 24. Tail ending in a point. 



Black above, the scales lighter in the centre; lateral scales 

 white, black-edged. Lower surface white, the shields with 

 black edges. Length of head and body 210 mm.; tail 30 mm. 



Habitat: Java; S. E. Borneo! (Tandjong). 



47. Calamaria lowi Boulenger. 



Calamaria lovii, Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (5) XIX 1887, p. 196; Cat. Sn. 

 II 1894, p. 350, pi XIX, fig. 4. 



Diameter of the eye about half its distance from the mouth; 

 rostral almost as deep as broad; frontal as broad as long, 

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

 no praeocular; one postocular; four upper labials, third entering 

 the eye; mental and three lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields; both pairs of chin-shields in contact. 

 Scales in 13 rows; ventrals 203 236; anal entire; subcaudals 

 14 22. Tail obtuse. 



Dark brown or plumbeous above, with light dots in longi- 

 tudinal series; upper lip yellowish; anterior part of body with 

 a lateral series of large, yellow spots and a few spots on the 

 tail. Lower surface uniformly blackish with a yellow transverse 

 bar above the vent or blotched with dark brown and yellow. 

 Length of head and body 243 mm.; tail 22 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the British Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Baram, Rejang and Niah rivers!). 



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