70 COLUBRID. 
with minute blackish dots; lower parts yellowish, finely dotted 
with brown ; the outer ends of the ventrals salmon-pink. 
Total length 1100 millim. ; tail 220. 
Travancore. 
a. 2 (V. 241; 0. 95). Peermad, 3300 feet. _ eons Esq. ah Ay 
ayeey” 
ey (Type.) 
10. Dipsadomorphus dendrophilus. 
Seba, Thes. ii. pl. xxi. fig. 1 (1735). 
Coluber peruvianus, Shaw, Zool. iii, p. 483, pl. cxxii. (1802). 
Dipsas dendrophila, Boie, Isis, 1827, Be 549; Wagl. Icon. Amph.. 
pl. viii. (1828) ; Schleg. Phys. .li. p. 263, pl. xi. figs. 1-3 
(1837), and A ld. bins de 1. ae 19 (1844) ; Cantor, Cat. 
ie 2 ate 76 (1 ley & Dillwyn, Contr. Nat. ‘Hist. 
47 (1855); Gilash Cone . 169 (1858), and Rept. Brit. Ind. 
ar (1864) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. 38, pl. iv. fig. 2 (1871). 
Triglyphodon dendrophilum, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 1086 (1854), 
— RC ae Dum. § Bibr. t. c. p. 1091, 
Boiga dendrophila, Cope, Proc. Ac, Philad. 1860, p. 264. : 
peer | ( ‘Triglyphodon ) gemmicincta, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1861,. 
p. 688 
Anterior palatine teeth scarcely longer than the posterior; ante- 
rior mandibular teeth moderately enlarged. Rostral a little broader 
than deep, just visible from above ; internasals broader than long, 
as long as or shorter than the preefrontals; frontal as long as broad 
or a little longer than broad, as long as or a little shorter than its 
distance from the end of the snout; loreal as long as deep or a 
little longer than deep (in one specimen, E. a, much longer than 
deep and entering the eye below the procular); one preocular, 
extending to the upper surface of the head but not reaching the 
frontal ; two postoculars; temporals 2+2 or 2+3; eight (excep- 
tionally nine) upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the 
eye; four or five lower Jabials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields, which are as large as or a little larger than the posterior. 
Scales in 21 (rarely 23) rows, vertebral row more or less strongly 
enlarged. Ventrals 209-239; anal entire; subcaudals 89-110, 
Coloration very variable. 
Total length 1900 millim. ; tail 370. 
Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
A. Black above, with 40 to 46 narrow yellow cross-bars which are 
mostly continuous across the back; upper labials yellow,. 
black-edged ; ventrals in the anterior third of the body yellow, 
spotted with black, further back black, uniform or spotted or 
speckled with yellow. (D. dendrophila, Boie.) 
a, b, ¢. é (V. 220, 220; O.?, Jaya. Lidth de Jeude Col- 
98) & 9 (V. 226 O. 93). lection. 
doé (V. 216; C.?). Java, Zoological Society, 
