180 COLUBRID. 
suring about twice the diameter of the eye. Nasals usually 
forming a suture behind the rostral; frontal as long as its distance 
from the end of the snout, as long as or a little longer than the 
‘parietals ; usually two superposed pairs of loreals ; two proculars,, 
upper usually in contact with the frontal; two postoculars ; tem- 
porals 242 or 2+3; seven or eight upper labials, fifth or sixth 
entering the eye; three or four lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are much shorter than the posterior. 
Scales in 15 rows, those on sacral region keeled. Ventrals 183-195 ; 
anal divided; subcaudals 115-151. Bright green, olive, or bronze- 
brown above; pale green or olive beneath, with a white or black- 
and-white lateral streak. 
Total length 820 millim.; tail 265. 
Assam, Arrakan, Pegu. 
ac. 3 (V.190; C. 143) Susy, (Types.) 
& 2 (V. 188, 192; 
o heR Gg (W198 W. Theobald, Esq 
d-g, h-k. 3 (V. 192, 188 Pegu. . Theo t 
190, 195; C. 120, 149; : (C.}. 
141, 144) & 9 (V. 187, 
192, 183; (0.135, ?, 115). 
4. Dryophis xanthozona. 
Dryophis xanthozona, Bove, Isis, 1827, p. 545. 
Dryiophis prasina, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 250, pl. x. figs. 11-13: 
(1837). 
Dryinus prasinus, var. A, Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 82 Sait 
Tragops javanicus, Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 72, pl. iii. fig. 15 (1867).. 
Snout pointed, feebly projecting, without appendage, nearly 
twice as long as the eye. Internasals in contact with the rostral ;. 
frontal a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 
as long as the parietals; a series of three or four small loreals; 
one preocular,.in contact with the frontal; two postoculars ; 
temporals 242; eight or nine upper labials, fourth and fifth, or 
fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye; four lower labials in 
contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are much shorter 
than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 186-195; anal 
entire (rarely divided); subcaudals 115-156. Green above; a 
yellow streak on each side of the belly and a pair of more in- 
distinct ones in the middle, separated by a purplish streak. 
Total length 1080 millim.; tail 410, 
Java, Pinang. 
a, Hgr. 9 (V.195; 0,115). Java. A. Scott, Esq. [P.]- 
b. 2 (V. 186; C. 156). Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 
5. Dryophis prasinus. 
Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. pl. xxiv. (1801). 3 f 
Dryinus nasutus (non Merr.), Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 1825, p 327. 
