284 COLUBRID.B. 



. d (V. 127 ; C. 06). Java. Leydon Museum. (One 



of the types.) 



6-. d (V. 123 ; C. 63) & $ Java. II r. Friihstorfer [C.]. 



(V. 134; 0.58). 



d. d(V. 127; C. 69). Java. 



e. $ (V. 137 ; C. 64). Salak, Java. K. Kirkpatrick, E*q. 



/. $ (V. 127; C. 59). Willis Mts.,Kediri, Baron' v. Huegel [C.]. 



Java, 5000 ft. 



y. 4 (V. 124; C.P). Borneo. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



A. (V. 134; C. 60). Sarawak. 



. d (V. 130 ; C. 76). Sarawak. Rajah Brooke [PA 



k. $ (V. 135; 0. 70). Baram, Sarawak. A. Everett, Esq. [P.]. 



/. d (V. 118 ; C. 66). Bunguran Id., A. Everett, Esq. [C.J. 



Natuna Ids. 



in. $ (V. 137; C. ?). Padang, Sumatra. 



n-o. d (V. 120, 124 ; Deli, Sumatra. Prof. Moesch [C.]. 



C. 68, 74). 



o-o. d (V. 121, 119; Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



0. 71, 70). 



10. Ablabes scriptus. 



Ablabes scriptus, Theob. Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 1868, p. 42, and Cat. 

 Rept. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 49, and Cat. Kept. Brit. 2nd. p. 154 

 (1876) ; Bouleny. Faun. 2nd., Rept. p. 305 (1890). 



Closely allied to A. baliodirus. Scales in 13 rows. Praeocular 

 one ; postoculars two, small ; loreal very small, much smaller than 

 postocular ; pra3frontals broader than long ; upper labials eight, the 

 third, fourth, and fifth entering the orbit ; a long narrow temporal, 

 forming a suture with both postoculars and the sixth and seventh 

 labials ; seventh labial largest, more than twice as broad as the 

 temporal ; two pairs of ^bin-shields, the hinder rather larger than 

 the other, first in contact with four labials ; lower labials seven, 

 fifth largest. Colour above brown ; a few black dots on either side 

 of spine on the front part of the trunk ; a black mark under the eye, 

 followed by a white upright border involving the postoculars ; a 

 black-bordered white patch on the last upper labial, and a white 

 collar on the nape. Beneath white. 



Martaban, Burma. 



11. Ablabes longicauda. 



Ablabes longicaudus, Peters, Mm. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 574, and Ann. 



Mus, Genova, iii. 1872, p. 35, pi. v. fig. 1. 

 quinquestriatus, F. Miiller, Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, vi. 1878, 



p. 657, pi. ii. tig. B, and vii. 1882, p. 143. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; nasal divided ; 

 eye three fourths the length of the snout ; suture between the 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than that between the 

 praefrontals ; frontal longer than its distance from the end of the 

 enout, shorter than the parictals ; a small loreal, as long as deep or 

 a little deeper than long, sometimes confluent with the ]>osterior 

 nasal; one or two pra> and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2; 



