103. ABLABKS. 



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labials in contact with fahe anterior chin-shields, which are a little 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows, with a very feeble 

 kfi-1 along their anterior half. Ventrals 174-192 ; anal divided ; 

 subcaudals 70-82. Olive above, the scales lighter in the centre ; 

 the lower scale on each side yellowish, margined with olive or black ; 

 young with dark spots anteriorly and four dark longitudinal bands 

 on the hinder half of the body, which disappear or become rather 

 indistinct in the adult; upper lip and lower parts uniform 

 yellowish. 



Total length 770 millim. ; tail 160. 



Loo Choo Islands and Japan. 



a-e. J (V. 190, 190, 190 ; Loo Choo Ids. H. Fryer, Esq. [P.]. 

 C. 82, 76, ?) & $ (V. 102, 

 187 ; C. 70, 72). 

 /. Yg. (V. 185 ; C. 76). Great Loo Choo Mr. Hoist [C.]. 



Island. 

 g. Yg. (V. 174 ; C. 74). Nagasaki. Mr. Whitely [C.]. 



(Type of G, nebulosus.) 



2. Ablabes major. 



Cyclophis major, Giinth. Cat. p. 120 (1858), and Sept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 230, pi. xvii. tig.. I (1*64). 



Herpetodryas chloris, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philnd. 1860, p. 503. 

 Ablabes major, Boettg. Ber. Senckenb. Ges. 1894, p. 140. 



Rostral as deep as broad or a little broader than deep, just 

 visible from above ; nasal divided ; eye about two thirds the length 

 of the snout; suture between the internasals shorter than that 

 between the praefrontals ; frontal as long as or a little longer than 

 its distance from the end of the snbut, shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal longer than deep ; one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 

 1 -f 2 ; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 broader and a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. 

 Ventrals 1(53-177; anal divided; subcaudals 70-87. Uniform 

 green above, yellow beneath. 



Total length 960 millim. ; tail 250. 



China. 



a. $ (V. KB; C. 71). 



b. $ (V. 170; C. 82). 



c. <$ (V. 104 ; C. 79). 



Near Ningpo. (Type ) 



Chusan Archipelago. J. J. Walker, Esq. [P.]. 

 Shanghai. K. Swinhoe, Esq. f C.]. 



d-e. $ (V. 170 ; C. 87) & Mountains North of A. E. Pratt, Esq. [C.J. 



yg. (V. 166 ; C. 82). Kiu Kiang. 



/-i. $ (V. 170, 168, 170, Island of Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.l 



171 ; C. 86, 86, 85, 83). 

 k-m. j (V. 168, 171, 169 ; China. 

 C. 70, 70, 77). 



3. Ablabes doriae. 



Cyclophiops doriae, Botdeng. Ann. Mu. (Senora, (2) vi. 1888, p. o99, 

 pi. vi. fig. 1. 



