60. COUTBEB. 61 



as or a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout or 

 from the rostral, shorter than the parictals ; loreal not or but 

 slightly longer than deep; one largo pneocular; two postoculars ; 

 temporals - + 2 or 2 + 3; nine upper labials, fourth to sixth 

 entering the eye ; five or six lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 

 19 rows (21 on the neck), rather strongly keeled ; all the caudal 

 scales keeled. Yentrals with an obtuse lateral keel, 193-234 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 89-109. Pale brown anteriorly, with a 

 yellow, black-edged vertebral stripe, which becomes gradually more 

 and more indistinct towards the hinder part of the body, which, 

 like the tail, is darker brown or black ; a series of black spots on 

 each side of the anterior part of the body, of ocelli with bright 

 yellow centres in the young ; some adult nearly uniform blackish 

 brown ; a black streak below the eye ; an oblique black streak from 

 the eye to the angle of the mouth, and another on the temple and 

 neck. 



Total length 1500 millim. ; tail 380. 



Southern China, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Java. 



a. 6 (V. 214 ; C. ?). China. Lindsay, Esq. [P.]. 



ft. Yp. ( V. -2-2-2 ; C. 100). Pinanp. Gen. Hardwicke [P.j. 



c. rf (V.217; C. 90). Singapore. Dr. Dennys [P.]. 



d. $ (V. 219; C. 101). Sumatra. Leyden Museum. 

 e-f. rf (V. 217 ; C. 99) & Deli, Sumatra. Mr. Ivereen [0.1 



$ (V. 222 ; C. 100). 



a. $ (V. 221 ; C. ?). Nias. Ilr. Sundermann [C.l 



h. Yp. ( V. 216 ; C. 103). Borneo. Sir E. Belcher [PA 



i-k. Yp. ( V. 203, 193 ; Borneo. L. L. Dillwyn, Esq 



C. 89, 90). [P.]. 



/. Hpr. (V. 212; C. 106). Borneo. Sir J. Brooke [P.]. 



m. $' (V. 230 ; C. 102). Borneo. Sir Eluph Low [P.1 



n-p. 6 (V. 206; C. 107) RejanpR., Sarawak. Brooke Low, Esq. HP.] 



& vp. (V. 207, 230; 



C. 101, 99). 



q. $ (V. 234 ; C. 107). Sarawak. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



r. rf (V. 208 ; C. 98). Baram, Borneo. C. Hose, Esq. [OLJ. 



. Hpr. (V. 221 ; C. 91). Java. 



t. Skull. Sarawak. 



36. Coluber radiatns. 



Rusxtt, Ind. Serp. ii. pi. xlii. (1801). 



Coluber radiatus, Scnleg. Fhys. Serp. ii. p. 135, pL v. fips. 5 & 6 



(1837) ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 73 (1847) ; Boulena. Faun. 



Ind., Rept. p. 333 (1890); W. Sclater, Journ. At. Sue. Btng. 



be. 1891, p. 239. 



quadrifasciatus, Cantor, Proc. Tool. Soc. 1839, p. 51. 

 Tropidonotus quinque, Cantor, 1. c. p. 64. 

 Compsosoma radiatum, Dwn. fy Bibr. vii. p. 292 (1854) ; Ciiinth 



Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 243 (18<54) ; Theob. Cat. Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 165 

 / (1876); Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 815 (lb7'J). 



