121. CALAMARIA. 349 



A. Lower parts uniform yellowish, with a dark line along the tail. 



a. Hgr. (V. 141 ; C. 13). P Gen. Hardwicke [0.1. 



b-c. Q (V. 182 ; C. 14) & Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [P.]. 



yg.(V. 176; 0.25). 



B. Ventrals and subcaudals obscured with brown mottlings, or 



brown with light borders. 



a. <J (V. 152 ; C. 20). Siam. M. Mouhot [C.]. ) 



*, c. rf (V. 155 ; C. 21) Lao Mountains. M. Mouhot [C.J. } 

 & $ (V. 180 ; C. 13). (Types of C. siamensis.) \ 



d. rf (V. 160 ; C. -2-2). North Chin hills,' E. Y. Watson, Esq. [P.]. 



Upper Burma. 



30. Calamaria septentrionalis. (PLATE XX. fig. 1.) 



Calameria quadrimaculata (non D. # B.), Giinth. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. 



(6) i. 1888, p. 165. 

 septentrionalis, Bouleng. Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1890, p. 34. 



Rostral broader than deep, not or hardly visible from above ; 

 frontal as broad as long, shorter than the parietals, about twice and 

 a half to three times as broad as the supraqeular ; one prse- and one 

 postocular ; the diameter of the eye nearly equal to its distance from 

 the mouth ; four upper labials, second and third entering the eye ; 

 first pair of lower labials forming a suture behind the symphysial ; 

 two pairs of chin-shields, in contact with each other. Scales in 13 

 rows. Ventrals 148-177 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 9-17. Tail 

 rounded at the end. Blackish brown above, with three longitudinal 

 series of small black spots ; each scale of the outer row with a 

 whitish spot ; a yellow nuchal collar, interrupted in the middle, and 

 a pair of yellow spots at the base of the tail ; lower parts uniform 

 coral-red, with a black line along the middle of the tail. 



Total length 300 millim. ; tail 13-22. 



China. 



a-d, e, f. <$ (V. 161, Mountains North A. E. Pratt, Esq.^l 

 159, 148; C. 17, 16, of Kiukiang. [C.]. 



15) 4 2 (V. 171, 172. _, . 



178' 0.9, 10,9). r-CTypes.) 



g. Yg.'(V.'l76;'c.lO). Hong Kong. II.M.S. 'Chal- I 



lender.' 



h. $ (V. 174 ; C. 9). Mainland oppos-ite J. J. Walker, Esq. [P.]. 

 Chusan Archi- 

 pelago. 



i. Hgr. (V. 177; C. 10). Chusan Archipel- J. J. Walker, Esq. [P.]. 

 ago. 



31. Calamaria melanota. 



Calamaria liunapi, vara. melanota et gastrogramma, Jan, Arch. Zool. 

 Anat. Phyt. ii. 1862, p. 5, pi. v., and Icon. G6n. 10, pi. i. figs. 4 & 6 

 (1865). 



