65. DESDRELAPniS. x ^ 



n. Ilarr. rf (V. 177 ; Trincomalee. Major Barrett [P.]. 



('. 128). 



o. Skull. India. Haslar Collection. 



p. Skull. ? 



2. Dendrelaphis subocularis. 



Dendrophis picta, part., Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 824 

 (1879). 



subocularis, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) vi. 1888, p. 600, 

 pi. vi. tig. 2, and Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 338 (1890). 



Eye as long as its distance from the anterior border of the nostril. 

 Rostral a little broader than deep, visible from above ; internasals 

 nearly as long as the praefrontals ; frontal once and two thirds as 

 long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 

 a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal elongate ; one prae- and 

 two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 ; eight upper labials, fifth largest 

 and bordering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are much longer than the posterior. Scales in 

 15 rows. Ventrals 167-172 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 74-105. 

 Olive-brown above, upper lip and a lateral streak yellowish white ; 

 an olive-brown stripe between the lateral yellowish streak and the 

 yellowish ventrals, occupying the extremities of the latter shields 

 and the lower half of the outer scales ; a black line behind the eye, 

 above the labials ; anterior labials with black lines on the sutures ; 

 a rather indistinct pale greenish line along the nape, bordered on each 

 side, in the young, by a series of large round black spots. 



Total length 820 millim. ; tail 220. 



Upper Burma. 



a. Hgr. (V. 167; C. 105). Bhamo. M. L. Fea [C.]. 



(One of the types.) 



3. Dendrelaphis caudolineatns. 



Ahaetula caudolineata, Gray, III. 2nd. Zool. ii. pi. Ixxxi. (1834). 

 Leptophia caudalineatus, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 85 (1847). 

 Dendmphis octolineata, Dum. fy Bibr. vii. p. 201 (1835) ; Jan, Icon. 



Gen. 32, pi. ii. fig. 1 (18< 

 caudolineata, Giinth. Cat. p. 150 (1&58), and Rept. Brit. In,l. 



p. 297 (1864) ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, 



p. 194 ; Giinth. Zool. Rec. 1870, p. 75 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. xlii. 1873, p. li':{. 

 Dendrelaphis caudohneatus, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 339 (1890). 



Snout little longer than the eye, which exceeds its distance from 

 the nostril. Rostral a little broader than deep, visible from above ; 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than the pnefrontals ; frontal 

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

 than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the 

 ]p irirtals ; loreal elongate ; one pno- and two postooulars ; temporals 

 2 + 2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth (rarely fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth) entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the 



