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gularis var. papuanus. Its colour is somewhat different from 

 the usual one. Pinkish-grey above, each scale speckled with 

 fine brown dots; ventrals and subcaudals speckled with brown. 

 In the stomach of one of those specimens were 7 shells of 

 fowl's eggs. 



8. Dipsadomorphus flavescens (Dum. & Bibr.). 



Triglyphodon flavescens, Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gen. VII 1854, p. 1080. 

 Dipsadormorphus flavetcens, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 77. 



Rostral triangular, visible from above; loreal small; praeocular 

 not extending to the upper surface of the head; three post- 

 oculars; temporals 2+4; eight upper labials. Scales in 19 rows, 

 vertebrals enlarged; ventrals 260; anal entire; subcaudals 1 1 6. 



Brown or yellowish-brown above, with indistinct angular 

 spots or transverse bands. Lower surface lighter. Length of 

 head and body 887 mm.; tail 234 mm. (After DUMERIL & 

 BlBRON ; not seen by me). 



Habitat: Celebes (Macassar). 



46. Psammodynastes Giinther. 



(GiiNTHER, Cat. Col. Sn. p. 140, 1858). 



Head distinct from neck; canthus rostralis 

 angular; eye large; pupil vertically elliptic; nasal 

 single; frontal very narrow. Maxillary teeth 9 1 1, 

 third or third and fourth enlarged, separated 

 from the following by a short interspace, last 

 enlarged and grooved; anterior mandibular teeth 

 strongly enlarged. Body round, covered with 

 ig- 77- sain - smoo th scales, without pits, in 17 or 10 rows; ven- 



modynastespictus 



Gtllr trals rounded. Tail short; subcaudals in two rows. 



Chin-shields X 2. Distribution. S. E. Asia. 



Key to the Indo-Australian species. 



A. Lower labials separated by the chin-shields. . . i. P. pulverulentus p. 202. 



B. Third lower labial large, bordering the mental 



groove behind the anterior chin-shields (fig. 77). 2. P. pictus p. 203. 



i. Psammodynastes pulverulentus (Boie). 



Psammophis pulverulenta^ Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 547- 



Psammodynastes pulverulentus, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 172 (s. syn.). 



Anisodon Lilljeborgi^ Rosen, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) XV 1905, p. 176. 



