198 THE HABITS OF MALAY REPTILES, 
Chersydrus granulatus Schn. is a short thick blunt-nosed 
snake, alternately banded with dirty brown and white. It seems 
to be rare here, only two specimens being recorded from the 
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long-tailed reptiles, often gaily coloured. They usually creep 
about in bushes o great height from the ground, moving 
very briskly when disturbed. Such are the snakes of the genera 
Dendrophis, Dendrelaphis and Dryophis. 
endreluphis caudolineatus is а very common kind, brown 
with a bright yellow band down its side. It seems more or less 
gregarious, as I have seen three in one bush. When annoyed 
‘I have noticed it emits an appalling odour of carrion. 
е little snakes of the genera Ad/abes and Simotes, though 
allied to Dendrelaphis, are generally to be met wit creeping on 
the ground, or concealed beneath logs or stones. They never 
seem to climb into trees, and being terrestrial are usually dull 
brown, sometimes marked with red. Simotes purpurascens, which 
lines running its whole length, a red bar down its back and a 
ed belly. 
exuded some drops of a white viscid liquid representing the 
well-known cobra marks, I noticed that my dog, seizing this 
