258 COLUBRID, 
d, Yg. (V. 148; C. ?). Philippines. Hr. Salmin [C 
e. 2 (V. 150; C. 85). Negros. Dr. A. B. Meyer 
[C.]. 
B. Belly without dots. 
tS. & (V. 154; C.?). Puerto Princesa. A. Everett, Esq. 
(C.] 
63. Tropidonotus chrysargus. 
Tropidonotus chrysargus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 312, pl. xii. 
figs. 6 & 7 (1837); Giinth. Cat. p. 70 (1858); Fischer, Arch. f. 
asso} p. 57, pl. iv, fig. 2; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 345 
junceus, Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 93 (1847); Blyth, Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. xxiv. 1855, p. 716; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. 
p- 268, pl. xxii. fig. F (1864); Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 
1871, p. 434. 
Leptophis albomaculatus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 541 (1854). 
Amphiesma chrysargum, part., Dum. § Bibr. t. c. p. 739. 
Tropidonotus dipsas, Blyth, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1854, 
297 
P ropidonotus zebrinus, Blyth, 1. ¢. P 297. 
Amphiesma chrysargum, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, 
p. 234. 
—— platyceps, Jan, Icon, Gén. 29, pl. ii. fig. 1 (1868). 
Tropidonotus maculatus, var. torquatus, Mocquard, Nouv. Arch. 
Mus. (3) ii. 1890, p. 139. © 
Eye large. Rostral just visible from above; internasals as long 
as broad or a little longer, nearly as long as the prefrontals ; frontal 
once and two thirds to once and three fourths as long as broad, 
as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 
parietals ; loreal nearly as deep as long; one or two preoculars ; 
three postoculars; temporals 2+2 or 243; nine or eight upper 
labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth, or third, fourth, and fifth, entering 
the eye; five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, 
all strongly keeled. Ventrals 143-175; anal divided; subcaudals 
60-93. Brownish or olive-green above, usually with a series of 
yellow spots or short transverse bars along each side of the back ; 
young with black spots and cross bars, which become indistinct 
with age; upper lip white, with the sutures between the labials 
black, the white colour extending as a more or less distinct angular 
or crescentic band on the nape; belly yellowish, with or without 
blackish dots, and with a more or less distinct series of small black 
spots along each side ; specimen 7 has the ventrals olive, edged with 
yellowish and three dark lines run along the belly. 
Total length 680 millim.; tail 190. . 
From the Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Burma, and Southern 
China to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, 
a. 2 (V. 168; C.?). Nepal. B. bee Esq. 
