196 COLUBRID. 
Snout much depressed, squarely truncate. Rostral broader tham 
deep, just visible from above; internasals shorter than the pre- 
frontals ; frontal once and a half to once and three fourths as long 
as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 
than the parietals ; loreal much elongate ; one preocular, in contact 
with or separated from the frontal; two postoculars; temporals 
2+2; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye; five 
(rarely four) lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 
which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows, three or 
more median rows feebly but distinctly keeled. Ventrals 202-221 ; 
anal divided ; subcaudals 146-180. Pale olive-brown or greenish 
to blackish above ; a darker streak on each side of the head, passing 
through the eye; upper lip whitish; ventrals yellowish or pale 
nish. 
_ Total length 1160 millim.; tail 380. 
Moluccas, Sangir Island, Ceram, Tenimber Islands. 
A. Dark brown or blackish above, the scales lighter in the centre ; 
outer row of scales red, black-edged ; ends of ventrals above 
the keel red; a black streak along the lower surface of the 
tail. (C. rhodopleuron, Boie.) 
a. 2 (V. 218; CO. 167). Amboyna, Leyden Museum. 
b-c. g¢ (V. 203; C. 164)  Mysol. 
Q (V. 205; C. ?) 
& . > bids 
d. 9 V. 218; 0.155). —_—N. Ceram. 
e. do (V. 204; C. 173). Timor Laut. H., O. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 
B. Uniform olive above, yellow beneath. (C. vicina, Gthr.) 
a. 2 (V. 221; C. 146). Mysol. (Type of C. vicina.) 
2. Chrysopelea ornata. 
Seba, Thes. i. pl. xciv. fig. 7 (1784), and ii, pl. vii. fig. 1, pl. lvi. fig. 1 
3B) ii. ph ii’ (1801). >” 
rysopelea ornata, Boie, Isis, 1827, P. 546; Dum. §& Bibr. vii. 
P. 1042 (1854); Jan, Icon. Gén, 33, pl. i. fig. 1 (1869); Stoliczka, 
ourn, As. Soc. Beng. xxxix, 1870, p. 194; Theob. Cat. . Brit. 
Chrysopelea —— part., Giinth. Cat. p. 146 (1858), and Rept. Brit. 
). 
— ru ns, part., Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 299. 
