78 COLUBBID.S. 



IT. Maxillary tooth 27 to 33 ; oye usually longer than its distance 

 from the nostril. 



A. Scales in 15 rows. 



Twopostoculars; vertebral scales scarcely 



enlarged on the anterior part of the 



body ; ventrals 174-188 5. grandoculis, p. 84. 



Usually three postoculars ; vertebral 



scales very strongly enlarged ; ventrals 



179-205 6. formosus, p. 84. 



B. Scales in 13 rows. 



Two postoculars ; ventrals 149-161 ; 



subcaudals 124-128 7. caudolineolatus, p. 85. 



Two postoculars ; ventrals 173-203 ; 



subcaudals 131-151 8. lineolatus, p. 85. 



Three postoculars; ventrals 162; sub- 

 caudals 148 9. gastrostictus, p. 86. 



1. Dendrophis pictus. 



? Coluber ahaetulla. Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 35, pi. xxii. fig. 3 



(1764). 



? Coluber ahsetulla, part., Linn. S. N. i. p. 387 (1766). 

 P Natrix ahsetulla, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 79 (1768). 

 Coluber pictus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1116 (1788). 



decor us, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 538 (1802). 



Dipsas schokari, part., Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. vergl. Anat. p. 80 (1820). 

 Ahsetulla decorus, Gray, Ann. Phil. x. 1825, p. 208. 

 Leptophis ahsetulla, part., Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 1825, p. 328. 

 Dendrophis picta, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 530 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beny. xJtxix. 1870, p. 193. 

 ? Deiidrophis polychroa, Boie, I. c. 



Ahsetulla bellii, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. Ixxx. (1834). 

 Dendrophis pictus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 228, pi. ix. figs. 5-7 



(1837); tium. # Bibr. vii. p. 197 (1854); Girard, U.S. Explor. 



Exped., Herp. p. 129 (1858; ; Gilnth. Cat. p. 148 (1858), and Kept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 297 (1864) ; Jan, Icon. Gtn. 32, pi. i. fig. 3 (18(59) ; 



Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 100 (1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind.. 



Rept. p. 337 (1890). 



Leptophis pictus, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 82 (1847). 

 Ahsetulla picta, part., Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 556. 

 Dendrophis picta, var. andamanensis, Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 



p. 184. 

 Leptophis formosus, Jan, Icon. Gen. 49, pi. vi. fig. 2 (1879). 



Maxillary teeth 23 to 26. Eye as long as its distance from the 

 nostril. Kostral much broader than deep, visible from above ; 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than the pncfrontals ; 

 frontal once and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals; loreal elongate (in one specimen 

 divided into two, in another fused with the praefrontal) ; one prse- 

 and two postoculars; temporals 2 + 2, rarely 1 + 1 or 1+2; nine 



