884 MR. 8. 8. FLOWER ON tHE REPTILES AND [Dee. 1, 
red; body and tail bronze-brown, each scale with a distinct black 
border ; a black stripe on each side of the head passing through 
eye; upper lip, chin, and throat bright citron-yellow ; lower parts 
olive-ereen, black lines on the lateral keels and each subcaudal 
distinctly bordered with black. In the latter specimen there were 
no black Jines on the lateral keels, or black borders to subcaudal 
scales. There is one specimen in the British Museum from 
Malacca. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Java. 
43. DENDRELAPHIS CAUDOLINEATUS, Gray. 
Leptophis caudalineatus, Cantor, p. 85. 
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, 1. p. 89. 
I obtained one specimen at Singapore; there is a specimen in 
the Raffles Museum labelled Pahang. Cantor mentions it from 
Penang Hill and Singapore ; Stoliczka caught it at Penang, and 
also found it in the collection he got from Penang and Province 
Wellesley ; and there are two specimens in the British Museum 
from Singapore from Dr. Dennys, and one from Perak from 
Mr. Leech. 
Hab. Southern India, Mergui, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
44. SIMOTES PURPURASCENS, Schl. 
Xenodon purpurascens, Cantor, p. 67. 
Simotes catenifer, Stol. J. A. 8S. B. 1873, p. 121, pl. x1. fig. 3. 
Simotes dennysi, Blanford, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 218, pl. xxi. fig. 1. 
Simotes purpurascens, Boul. Cat. Snakes, 1. p. 218. 
Cantor met with this species on Penang Hill; Stoliczka found it 
in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley, and 
also records a specimen from Johore; there is a specimen in the 
British Museum from Singapore; and I obtained one specimen 
from Province Wellesley. 
Hab. South China, Cochinchina, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 
Borneo, and Java. 
45. Stores cyoLurus, Cant. 
Simotes bicatenatus, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1878, p. 114. 
Simotes cyclurus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 219. 
Stoliczka found this species in the collection he got from Penang 
and Province Wellesley. 
Hab, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Southern China, 
Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra. 
46. Stmorgs ocroLrnzatvs, Schn. 
Simotes octolineatus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 224. 
I obtained a specimen near Taiping, Perak. Ventrals 158; 
subcaudals 47. The colour was—above very dark brown, beneath 
white, vertebral line scarlet and three white lines along each side. 
A. specimen caught at Tanglin, Singapore (ventrals 183;  sub- 
caudals 61), was coloured yellow, with eight black longitudinal 
