10 COLUBRID. 
snout, as long as or a little shorter than the parietals; one or two 
pre- and two postoculars; temporals 1+2 or 1+3; eight upper 
labials, fifth or fifth and sixth entering the eye; three lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which separate the 
posterior. Scales in 21 or 23 rows. Ventrals 137-146; anal 
divided ; subcaudals 39-40. Dark olive or blackish above and on 
the sides, with a yellowish lateral streak along the second row 
of scales; belly brown, spotted with yellowish, or with a yellowish 
spot at the outer end of each ventral shield; tail dark, with a 
yellowish spot on each subcaudal shield. 
Total length 710 millim. ; tail 110. 
New Guinea. 
a, b-c. 9 (Se. 23; V. 148; Fly River. Rey. 8. Macfarlane [C.]. 
C. 40) & her. (Sc. 21; 
V. 187, 143; C. 39, 40). 
10. Hypsirhina blanfordii. 
eee maculata (non D. §& B.), Blanf. Journ, As. Soc. Beng. 
xlviii. 1879, p. 130. 
—— maculosa, Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 226. 
—— blanfordi, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 377 (1890). 
Head short, with broad, square, truncated snout; internasal 
single, nearly as long as broad; frontal fully twice as long as 
broad, a little shorter than the parietals; one pre- and two 
postoculars ; temporals 142; eight upper labials, fourth entering 
the eye; only one pair of large chin-shields, the posterior 
pair scarcely exceeding the adjoining scales in size. Scales in 
25 rows. Ventrals 125; anal divided; subcaudals 45. Colour 
blackish ashy, with a row of large irregular-shaped black spots 
along the back and another rather less in size, but each spot 
including several scales, along each side; a blackish band along 
the margins of the ventrals, caused by the dark edges of the shields 
and of the first row of scales on each side. 
Total length 300 millim. ; tail 45. 
Pegu. 
11. Hypsirhina bocourtii. 
Hypsirhina bocourti, Jan, Arch. Zool, Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 258, 
and Icon. Gén. 28, pl. v. fig. 2 (1868). 
Ferania sieboldii (non Schleg.), Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) xviii. 
1866, p. 28. 
? Hypsirhina multilineata, Tirant, Notes Rept. Cochinch. p. 41 
1885). 
Rostral broader than deep; a single internasal, about twice 
as broad as long; frontal narrow, narrower than the supraocular, 
at least twice as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end 
of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals; loreal a little 
longer than deep; one pre- and two postoculars ; temporals 142; 
eight upper labials, fourth entering the eye; four or five lower 
