1899.] EBPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 681 



usual, head foremost, but the tail and posterior part of the body 

 was for about a third of its length doubled back on the remainder. 



Colour (in life) of a specimen from Alor Star, Kedah : — 

 Above intense shining black, below leaden blue-black. Fifty-five 

 bright gamboge-yellow rings, much narrower than the black inter- 

 spaces, and interrupted both above and below (except the last few 

 on the tail). Labials and lower parts of head and neck gamboge ; 

 upper labials broadly, lower labials narrowly outlined in black. 



Size. Total length 2310 mm. (P. Z. S. 1896, p. 889). 



Hah. Lovrer Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, 

 Celebes, Palawan, Philippines. 



173. DlPSADOMORPHUS JASPIDETTS (D. & B.). 



Dipsadomo7-phus jaspideus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 73. 

 Hah. Malay Peninsula (Penang), Java, Borneo. 



174. DiPSADOMORPHTJS DBAPIEZII (Boie). 

 DiiJsadomorj3lius drapiezii, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 74 ; S. Flower, 



P.Z.S. 1896, p. 889. 



Hah. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



175. DiPSADOMOEPHUS CTNODON (Boic). 



Dipsadomorphus cynodon, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 77. 



Localities. Penang Hills, 2.500 feet (Van Sommeren collection), 

 Province Wellesley (Cantor), Grunong Keledang in Perak (" light 

 coloured, with yellow throat," Eidley), Kuala Lurapor (Selangor 

 Museum), Malacca (var. B, British Museum), Johore Bahru 

 (Wilson), and Singapore (vars. A. & B, Dennys and Eidley). 



Habits. One was caught in Penang climbing in a coniferous tree. 

 A specimen caught in Johore had swallowed a bird. 



Size. A Johore specimen measured in total length 2448 mm. 

 (or 8 feet) ; two Selangor specimens were of about the same size. 



Hah. Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sipora (Mentawei 

 Islands), Java ?, BaU, Borneo, Philippines. 



176. PSAMMODTNASTES PULTEBULENTUS (Boie). 



Psammodynastes pulverulentus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 172. 



M. Mouhot obtained a specimen in the Laos Mountains. There 

 is one in the Siamese Museum labelled " Siam," and I have seen 

 another from Chantaboon. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, Khasi and Assam Hills, Burma, Siam, 

 Formosa, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Enganq^ Java, Lombok, 

 Flores, Great Natuna, Borneo, Celebes, Balabac, Palawan, 

 Philippines. 



177. Dbtophis xanthozona Boie. 



BryopTiis xanthozona, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 180. 

 Hah. Malay Peninsula (Penang), Java. 



