260 COLUBRID &. 
ab. 9 = hh 135; ©. 80) & 8, Canara. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
yg. (V. 134; C. 90). 
e-d. 9 (V. 140, 188; C. Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
92, 90). “oy 
e. Hgr., bad state. _ Anamaliays. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
f. o (V. 187; C, 82). ——? 
65, Tropidonotus maculatus. 
Tropidonotus maculatus, Ldeling, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. 1864, 
p. 203; Giinth. Zool. Ree, 1872, p. 74. 
Amphiesma substolatum, Jan, Arch, Zool. Anat. Phys, iii. 1865, 
p. 233, and Icon, Gén, 29, pl. i. fig. 1 (1868). 
‘Tropidonotus ot a Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (3) xv. 1865, 
. 95, pl. ii. fig. D. 
se sarawacensis (non Giinth.), Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. 1885, p. 54, 
Form slender. Eye very large. Rostral broader than deep, 
scarcely visible from above ; internasals as broad as long, trapezoid, 
as long as the prefrontals; frontal once and a half as long as 
broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than 
the parietals; loreal as deep as long, or deeper ; one pre- and three 
postoculars ; temporals 2+3,; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and 
sixth entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales 
in 19 rows, all strongly keeled. Ventrals 144-156; anal divided ; 
subcaudals 95-113. Olive aboye, with four longitudinal series of 
small square black spots and two of yellowish ones ; upper labials 
yellowish with black sutures; lower parts yellowish, the shields 
_ edged with black. 
Total length 810 millim. ; tail 270. 
Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 
a. Yg. (V. 146; C.113), . Malacca. D. Ls (P rag. 
sq. [P.]. 
b. 9 (V. 145; C. 95). Siboga, Sumatra. Dr. Bleeker, 
(Type of 7. sundanensis.) 
ce. Yg. (V. 146; C. 108). Mt. Dulit, Borneo. C. Hose, Esq. [C.}. 
66. Tropidonotus chrysargoides. (Prare XVI. fig. 1.) 
Amphiesma chrysargum, part., Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 739 (1854). 
Tropidonotus chrysargoides, Giinth, Cat. p. 71 (1858); Fischer, 
Arch. f. Nat. 1882, p. 284. 
Amphiesma chrysargoides, Jan, Arch. Zool, Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, 
p. 236. , 
Eye rather large. Rostral broader than deep, scarcely visible 
from above; internasals longer than broad, broadly truncate in 
front, as long as the preefrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as 
broad, as long as or a little longer than its distance from the end of 
the snout, a little shorter than the parietals; loreal as long as deep 
or a little deeper; one pre- and three postoculars; temporals 
