692 ME. STAKLET S. PLOWER ON THE [May 16, 



Localities. The Hamadryad is known to occur in the following 

 places : — Hills of Penang, and Province Wellesley (Cantor) ; Larut, 

 Perak (Perak Museum); Kuala Lumpor (Selangor Museum and Yan 

 Sommeren coll.) ; Singapore (Dennys and Ridley), Siam (Brit. Mus. 

 Cat., two specimens presented by W. H. Newman, Esq.). 



Size. Two skins of Hamadryads killed near Taiping, Perak, now 

 in the possession of Lt.-Col. Proude "Walker, O.M.Gr., measure 

 respectively about 3760 and 4040 mm. ; another specimen killed 

 within four miles of Taiping, now in the Museum there, measures 

 about 4500 mm. ; and one in the Kuala Lumpor Museum, which 

 was killed in the neighbourhood, is said to be 15 feet long 

 (4572 mm.). 



Eab. India, Burma, Southern China, Cochinehina, Siam, Malay 

 Peninsula, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines. 



206. Callophis gracilis Gray. 



Elcvps nigromaculatus. Cantor, p. 108, pi. si. fig. 7. 

 GallopJiis gracilis, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii, p. 396. 

 I obtained one specimen in Singapore, October 1897. 

 Eah. Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 



207. Callophis maoulioeps Giinth. 



Elaps melanurus (non Shaw), Cantor, p. 106, pi. xl. fig. 6. 



Callophis maculiceps, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 397. 



Eab. Burma, Cochinehina, Malay Peninsula (Prov. Wellesley). 



208. DoLioPHis BiviRGATUS (Boie). 



Doliophis bivirgafus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 400 ; S. Plower, 

 P. Z. S. 1896, p. 895. 



Localities. Var. A, Uvirgaius : Penang (Brit. Mus.). 



Yar. B, tetratcenia : Singapore (Brit. Mus.). 



Yar. C,Jlaviceps : Penang Hills (Cantor, Yan Sommeren, & S. S, P.) ; 

 Penang Plains (Yan Sommeren) ; Kulim, Kedah (Mitchell) ; 

 Taiping, Perak (Perak Museum) ; Larut Hills, 4500 feet elevation 

 (Perak Museum) ; Selangor (Rafiles Museum) ; Malacca (Cantor) ; 

 Johore Bahru (Wilson) ; Guuong Piilai, Johore (S. S. P.) ; Singa- 

 pore (Brit. Mus., Girard, & S. S. P.). 



Colour (in life). Yar. C : Head bright cora,l-red, slightly darker 

 red on the occiput. Border of scales which enter eye black, 

 making a narrow black ring round eye. Body, rich dark _ blue, 

 highly iridescent, with on each side from neck to vent a line of 

 light " Cambridge " blue, 2 scales wide ; this hght blue is separated 

 from the red belly by a narrower line of dark blue. The lower 

 surface is bright coral-red. The tail is bright coral-red, with a 

 dorsal line of dark purphsh blue, which commences the whole 

 breadth of the tail and gets narrower towards the tip. 



Size. A specimen I caught on Gunong Pulai, Johore, belonging 

 to Yar. C, measured 1708 mm. in total length ; and one killed at 



