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which is but little broader than deep, and the shorter posterior 

 chin-shields, which are not or but slightly longer than the anterior. 

 Ventrals 239-243 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 107-108. Brown above, 

 darker along the back, uniform or with black spots disposed in 

 longitudinal series on the anterior part of the body ; a short dark 

 streak behind the eye ; lower parts yellowish, spotted with pale 

 brown posteriorly. 



Total length 1420 millim.; tail 310. 



Engano Island, S.W. Sumatra. 



39. Coluber subradiatus. 



Coluber subradiatus, SMeg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 136 (1837), and 

 Abbild. p. 101, pis. xxviii. figs. 7 & 8, and pi. xxix. (1840). 



Compsosoma subradiatum, Dum. fy liibr. vii. p. 297 (1854). 



Elapnis subradiatus, part., Gunth. Cat. p. 95 (1858). 



nyctenurus, Jan, Elenco, p. 61 (1863). 



subradiatus, Van Lidth de Jeude, in M. Weber. Zool. Ergebn. 



p. 184 (1890). 



Nearly allied to C. radiatus, but differing in the following points : 

 Rostral much broader than deep ; a subocular below the ocular ; 

 fifth and sixth labials entering the eye; anterior chin-shields 

 much shorter than the posterior ; scales in 23 or 25 rows (25 or 

 27 on the neck). Ventrals 228-242 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 

 80-100. Pale reddish brown above, with a pair of black stripes 

 along each side of the anterior half of the body ; these stripes may 

 be broken up into series of spots ; a short black streak behind the 

 eye ; lower parts uniform yellowish. 



Total length 1250 millim. j tail 260. 



Timor, Flores. 



o. 3 (Sc. 23; V. 233; C. Timor. Leyden Museum. 



93). (One of the types.) 



ft. Yg. (Sc. 23 ; V. 230 ; ? Dr. Bleeker. 



C. 90). 



40. Coluber lineaticollis. 



Arizona lineaticollis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 300. 

 Spilotes lineaticollis, Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mm. no. 32, 1887, p. 72. 

 Pituophis lineaticollis, Gunth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 124, pi. xlvii. 

 (1894). 



Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; internasals broader 

 than long, shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal once and a half as 

 long as broad, as long as its distance from the rostral, a little shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal a little longer than deep ; one (or two) 

 prae- and three postoculars; temporals 2-f3 or 4; eight or nine 

 upper labials, fourth and fifth, or fourth, fifth, and sixth, entering 

 the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields. Scales in 27 rows, dorsals strongly keeled. Ventrals 244 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudala 69. Pale brown above ; head uniform ; 



