222 COLUBRID, 
anal divided; subcaudals 59-79. Reddish brown or olive above, 
with a more or less marked blackish or dark olive vertebral stripe, 
and small blackish spots ; an oblique yellow dark-edged band on 
each side of the nape, the two converging posteriorly ; upper labials 
yellow, with black sutures ; lower parts yellow, with a lateral series 
of brown dots or short lines. 
Total length 440 millim. ; tail 100. 
Mantchuria, Japan, Formosa. 
a-b. 3 (VY. 150,151; C. Chaborowka, on Hr. Dorries [C.]. 
59, 60). the Ussuri. 
e-d. Yg. (V. 187,187; C. Japan. A, Adams, Esq, [C.]. 
62, 65). 
ef. og (V. 148; ©. 74) Japan. Leyden Museum, 
& 9 (V. 144; C. 79). 
h. & (V. 148; C.?). Japan. Dr. Bleeker. 
t. 2 (V. 144; C. 68). Yokohama, H.MS. ‘ Challenger.’ 
k. Yg. Se 145; C.73). Kobe. H.M.S. ‘ Challenger.’ 
l 2 (V. 127; C. 73). Formosa, R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 
20. Tropidonotus conspicillatus. 
Tropidonotus conspicillatus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p, 596, 
fig.; Boetty. Ber. Offend. Ver. Nat. 1892, p. 109. 
Eye moderate. Nostril in an entire or semidivided nasal ; rostral 
twice as broad as deep, scarcely visible from above; internasals as 
long as broad or a little longer, broadly truncate in front, nearly as 
long as the prefrontals ; frontal once and a half to once and two 
thirds as long as broad, a little longer than its distance from the end 
of the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal.deeper than long; 
one pre- and three postoculars; temporals 1+2 (or 1+3); eight 
upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; five lower 
labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter 
than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, all keeled (or outer row 
smooth). Ventrals 138-147; anal divided; subcaudals 40-53. 
Brown or reddish above, with a dark network and two longitudinal 
series of yellowish spots or cross-lines; a yellow, black-edged streak 
along the upper lip, and another from the eye to the angle of the 
mouth; nape blackish, with two interrupted yellow transverse 
streaks ; yellowish below, uniform or speckled with brown. 
Total length 400 millim. ; tail 75. 
Borneo, Sumatra*. 
a-b. 3 (V. 142; C. 49) Matang. 
& 9 (V. 140; C. 49). (Types.) 
ce. Hgr. (V. 142; C.?). Borneo. — L. L. Dillwyn, Esq. [P.]. 
d. 2 (V. 147; C. 53). Mt. Dulit, C. Hose, Esq. [C. |. 
Borneo. 
* I have examined a specimen from Sinkep Isd., preserved in the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta. o 
