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The details of my two are as follows, — No. 1. (sex undetermined, owing 

 to damage). Total length, 458 mm. tail 53. Costals 15 throughout, the 

 median scales faintly keeled on the posterior part of the body. Ventrals 

 141. Subcaudals 24. 



Colour (in spirits). Above light purplish-brown, most of the scales edged 

 with black so arranged across the back as to present a series of fairly well- 

 defined circular or oval rings. Below whitish, freely speckled with black,, 

 and with large, black, rectangular spots, placed laterally. A black arrow- 

 headed mark upon the nape, beginning at the frontal shield, and a pale 

 chevron behind it. Most of the head scales edged with black. Chin and 

 throat white. 



No. 2. (5" . Total length 458 mm, tail 47. Dorsal keels more strongly 

 marked than in No. 1. Ventrals 132. Subcaudals 24. 



Colour. Light pinkish-brown above, the black edging to the scales form- 

 ing posteriorly fairly welldefined cross-bars. Belly only sparely sprinkled 

 with black. The rectangular spots become crescentic in shape in the post- 

 erior half. 



Dendralaphis subooularis . — Previously recorded from Bhamo, in Upper 

 Burma (the types), and from Eastern Siam, one specimen, collected by 

 the Pavie Mission to Indo-China. I have had 4 more specimens from 

 widely separated parts of this country, namely. Den Chai (near Phrae), 

 Sriracha Koh Lam (a small island near), and Bangtaphan. Only the first 

 named locality is of any altitude, the other three places being on 

 the sea. 



The total length of my largest was 600 mm. the tail forming 170 mm. 

 Costals 16-15-11 (counted by Lt.-Col. Wall's method). Ventrals 168-158-165- 

 165. Subcaudals 76-95-90-94. Temporals 2-|-2 ; supralabials, 8 in two speci- 

 mens, the 5th entering the eye, 7 in the other two specimens, the 4th 

 entering the eye. 



Colour (in life). Above, bronze-brown, becoming greenish-brown upon the 

 tail, the colour ending abruptly If costal scales above the ventrals. Belly 

 pearly-white; beneath the tail, pale metallic citrine. A dark band passes 

 along the outer margin of the belly, occupying the lower half of the last row 

 of costal scales and the adjacent part of the ventrals. It is almost jet black 

 in one specimen, very indistinct in the other three. Another black band 

 passes through the eye on to the neck where it breaks up into short cross- 

 bars and disappears. Lips white. Interstitial skin anteriorly pale 

 blue. In three of the specimens, the vertebral scales upon the neck are 

 yellow. 



Dryophis prasinus var. flavescens. — Mr Bowden Kloss of the Federated 

 States Museums informs me that he took the first specimen of this colour 

 variety at Trang, in the Siamese portion of the Malay Peninsular. I have 

 recently procured two more from localities near Bangkok. 



The first specimen, an adult, was of a bright chrome yellow above (still 

 brighter, I am informed in life) in the anterior two-thirds of its body, turn- 

 ing to a pale fawn posteriorly. Below yellowish- white. No flank line. 

 Chin pure white. The interstitial skin was alternately black and white, as 

 is usual with this species. 



The second ppecimen, a half grown one, which I kept alive for some time, 

 had the yellow colouring faintly tinged with green in the fore part of 

 the body and with brown in the hinder part. Belly pale • yellow anteriorily , 

 yellowish brown posteriorly. Tongue and iris yellow. A minute black dot 

 at the margin of each ventral shield in the anterior two-thirds of the 

 body. Interstitial skin, alternately black and yellow, except across the 

 vertebral region, where the yellow became white. 

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