124. HYPSIRHINA, 5 
Jong as broad, as long as or longer than its distance from the end of 
the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal as long as deep, in 
contact with the internasal; one pre-and one or two postoculars ; 
temporals 1+2; eight upper labials, fourth entering the eye; four 
or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
are larger than the posterior ; the latter separated from each other 
by scales. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 125-152; anal divided ; 
subcaudals 24-36. Dark purplish brown above, usually with more 
‘or less distinct light (red?) cross-bars, the first on the occiput ; 
yellowish (red?) beneath, with large alternating transverse black 
spots or with irregular black cross-bars. 
Total length 465 millim. 
Java, Borneo. 
a 2 (V. 152; C.?). Borneo. Dr. Bleeker. (Rabdosoma 
borneensis, Blkr.) 
4. Agr. (V. 185; C. 24). Borneo. 
3. Hypsirhina plumbea. 
Homalopsis plumbea, Boze, Isis, 1827, p. 560; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 
p. ae pl. xiii. figs. 12 & 13 (1837) ; Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 101 
1847). 
Heaths hardwickii, Gray, Ill. Ind. Zool. ii. pl. Ixxxvii. fig. 1 
(1834), and Cat. p. 72 (1849). 
Coluber plumbeus, Eyd. § Gerv. in Guér. Mag. Zool. Cl. iii. 1837, 
pl. xvi. fig. 1. 
Hypsirhina plumbea, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 66 (1842) ; Giinth. Rept. 
_ Brit. Ind. p. 280 (1864); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, 
p- 261, and Icon. Gén. 30. pl. v. fig. 2 (1868) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. 
Brit. Ind. p. 182 (1876) ; Boettg. Ber. Offend. Ver. Nat. 1888, 
p. 83; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 376, fig. (1890). 
Eurostus plumbeus, Dum. & Bibr. vii. p. 955, pl. Ixxxiv. fig. 2 
(1854). 
Rostral much broader than deep ; internasal single, broader than 
long; frontal once and a half to once and two thirds as long as 
broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 
than the parietals; loreal as long as deep or deeper than long ; one 
pre- and two postoculars; temporals 14+2; eight upper labials, 
fourth or fourth and fifth entering the eye; four or five lower 
labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are larger 
than the posterior; latter separated by scales. Scales in 19 rows. 
Ventrals 120-134; anal divided; subcaudals 29-46. Brownish or 
greyish olive above, uniform or with a vertebral series of small 
’ black spots; upper lip and lower parts white, usually with a 
blackish line along the middle of the tail; belly sometimes with 
some blackish spots, or with a median series of blackish dots. 
Total length 485 millim. ; tail 65. 
Burma, Southern China, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula and 
Archipelago. 
a-b. 3 (V. 128; C. 40) Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 
& 2 (V. 129; C. 33). 
