884 Jill. S. S. I'LOWBR ON THU KEPTILES AND [DeC. 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-green, black lines on the lateral keels and each subcaudal 

 distinctly bordered with black. In the latter specimen there were 

 no black lines on the lateral keels, or blaclc borders to subcaudal 

 scides. There is one specimen in the British Museum from 

 Malacca. 



Ilab, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Java. 



43. Dendbelaphis OAunoMNEATrs, Gi-ay. 

 Leptophis caudalineatus, Cantor, p. 85. 

 Dendreluphis caudolineatus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 89. 



I obtained one specimen at Singapore ; there is a specimen in 

 the Eaffles 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. 



Hub. Southern India, Mergui, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



44. SiMOTES PUnPUIiASOENS, Schl. 

 Xenodon purpurasc-'ns. Cantor, p. 67. 



Simotes caUni/er, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 121, pi. xi. fig. 3. 



Simotes dmn'ysi, Blanford, P. 'L. S. 1881, p. 218, pi. xxi. fig. 1. 



Simotes purpurascens, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. 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. 



IJab. South China, Cochinchina, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Borneo, and Java. 



45. Simotes cyolueus. Cant. 



Simotes hieatenaias, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 114. 



Simotes cyelurus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 219. 



Stolicz,ka found this species in the collection he got from Penang 

 and Province Wellesley. 



Hah. Bengal, Assam, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Southern China, 

 Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra. 



46. Simotes octolinhatus, 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 



