402 COLUBRID. 
Callophis intestinalis, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 82, pl. xvi. 
fige. B & OC, and t. Brit. Ind, p. 348 (1864); Meyer, Mon. 
erl. Ac, 1869, p. 204, pls. i. & ii.; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soe, 
Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 212; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 211 
1876). 
lise AL var. nigroteniatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, 
. 404, 
z intestinalis, var. malayana, Giinth. 1. c. p. 349. 
Adeniophis nigroteeniatus, Peters, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1871, p. 578. 
meyer maciRant (non Reinh.), Fayrer, Thanatoph. Ind. pl. x. 
(1874). 
Adeniophis intestinalis, Meyer, Sitzb. Ak. Berl. 1886, p. 614; 
Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 386 (1890), 
malayanus, Meyer, 1. ¢. 
Elaps wet PS v LIidth de Jeude,in M. Weber, Zool. Ergebn, i. 
. 190 (18 . 
Callo his intestinalis, var. suluensis, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien. c. i. 
1891, p. 295. 
Eye as long as or a little shorter than its distance from the 
mouth. Rostral a little broader than deep; frontal as long as 
broad or slightly longer than broad, as long as or longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout; one pre- and two postoculars ; 
temporals 1+2; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the 
eye; three or four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. 
Scales in 18 rows. Ventrals 197-273; anal entire; subcaudals 
15-33. Brown or blackish above, with darker or lighter longi- 
tudinal streaks ; tail pink or red beneath; belly with black cross-bars. : 
Total length 580 millim. ; tail 45. 
Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Celebes. 
A, Forma typrica (A. intestinalis, Laur., E. furcatus, Schn.).— 
Dark brown above, blackish towards the middle of the back ; 
a narrow orange or yellow vertebral line, forked on the head 
and extending on each side to the upper lip behind the nostril ; 
a large subtriangular yellow temporal blotch usually present ; 
a black stripe along each side, divided by a yellow line running 
between the two outer series of scales; barred black and yellow 
beneath, the black bars as broad as or a little narrower than 
the yellow. 
a. 3 (V. 255; C. 22). Java. 
b-d. 3 (V. 249, 242, Willis Mt., Kediri, Java, Baron vy. Huegel [C.]. 
231 ; 0. 26, 24, 25). 6000 ft, 
e. 3 (V. 224; C. 26). Labuan. Dr, Collingwood [P.]. 
B. Var. annectens. As in the preceding, but vertebral line not 
bifurcating on the head. This variety completely connects the 
preceding and the following. Specimen d black above and on 
the sides, with three yellow lines, 
a. 3 (V. 235; C. 25). Singapore. H. N. Ridley, Esq. 
b. 2(V. 247; © 20). Labuan, punt Esq. 
