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Found on trees; feeds on small mammals, birds, lizards and 

 amphibians. The female brings forth 7 12 young ones. 



6. Lachesis puniceus (Boie). 



Cophias punicea^ Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 561. 



Atropophis lorneensit, Peters, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva III 1871, p. 41. 

 Bothrops sandakanensis, \. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. 1893, p. 256. 

 Lachesis borneensis, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 561. 

 Lachesis puniceus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 560. 



Trimeresurus puniceus, Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 

 1912, p. 140. 



Snout short, truncate, with sharp, raised angle, especially 

 above the nostrils; eye small. Rostral as broad as deep or a 

 little more deep; scales on the head small, smooth ; supraocular 

 narrow or broken up into pointed, erect scales; two pair of 

 internasals; 9 14 scales between the supraoculars; two to four 

 postoculars; one or two suboculars, separated from the labials 

 by two or three series of scales; ten to twelve upper labials, 

 sometimes second bordering the labial pit, third largest; first 

 lower labial divided, forming a pair of chin-shields; temporal 

 scales smooth or obtusely keeled. Scales feebly keeled, in 

 19 23 rows; ventrals 144 176; anal entire; subcaudals 38 65, 

 in two rows; tail prehensile. 



Grey, brown or reddish above, with dark spots, the spots 

 sometimes black-edged and forming a wavy band on the back; 

 a light dark-edged streak on each side of the head behind 

 the eye. Lower surface brown with a series of yellowish spots 

 on each side or speckled with brown; end of tail reddish. 

 Length of head and body 690 mm.; tail 102 mm. 



Nom. in dig. Ular gibuk; oraj lemah (sund.); sawah tadung 

 or sawah tadung bisa (Simalur). 



Habitat: Simalur!; Sumatra (Battak Highlands 800 1000 M., 

 Padang!); Natuna Islands; Borneo (Pangkalan ampat, Kuching, 

 Baram river, Kidi district, Matang, Paitan, Mt. Dulit, Sandakan 

 Bay!, Samarinda!); Java (Buitenzorg!, Mt. Salak, Sukabumi, 

 Mt. Willis 5000 feet, Tengger Mts. 1200 M.). Malay Penin- 

 sula 3000 feet. 



7. Lachesis wagleri (Boie). 



Cophias -wagleri^ Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 561. 



Lachesis wagleri, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 562 (s. syn.). 



