22,5 Taylor: Herpetological Fauna, III 551 



twice as broad as supraocular and much longer ; parietals longer 

 than frontal, much longer than broad ; scales bordering parietals 

 enlarged, separated behind parietals by a small scale inserted 

 between parietals at posterior part; nostril in a single very 

 small nasal; a single narrow preocular, three times as long as 

 wide ; a small postocular a little higher than wide ; five labials, 

 last very large, third and fourth entering orbit; first and 

 second labials touch prefrontal, second and third touch preoc- 

 ular, fourth and fifth touch postocular; one large posterior 

 temporal; mental small, about as wide as rostral at its base; 

 anterior chin shields very large, touching mental and three 

 lower labials; second pair of chin shields much narrower and 

 about two-thirds the length of anterior pair, separated save in 

 anterior part by a single scale, separated from ventrals by 

 three small scales; five lower labials, fifth separated from first 

 ventral bv four scales; scales smooth, in 13 rows; ventrals, 134; 

 anal, single; subcaudals, 17; tail ending in a rather sharp point. 

 Color in life.— Above olive-brown with the sutures between 

 scales rather darker, and three broken rows of dark dots one 

 on the median row, and one on the row third from the median ; 

 the two scale rows below that bearing the dark dots have small 

 cream-white dots separated by brown coloring; the outer scale 

 row has an unbroken white line on the anterior part of body 

 and on the latter half each scale has a white dot; a brownish 

 line borders the edge of the ventrals; belly and underside of 

 tail immaculate; head almost uniform black-brown; heavy 

 black spots on the labial sutures and on fifth labial; lower labials 

 with black spots; a black-edged cream band crosses necx, 

 separated from parietals by six scale rows. 



Measurements of Calamaria hollandi sp. nov. 



175 

 Total length 160 



Snout to vent 15 



Tail 4 5 



Width of head 7 



Length of head 

 Remark.^ single specimen was obtained ft jtt. M -y low 

 number of ventrals the species is apparently related to v 

 nana polUlensis sp. nov. and C. J°" T ^ e J s \Tc 

 counts are almost identical with those of C. %&£*- *»£ 

 hollandi differs in the size of the rostral and t relat n to th 

 prefrontal, In C. *M. ^ ^ ^tr^Tf- 

 gular in form, is visible above, me 



