1873.] F, Stollczka — 3Ialai/an Beptilia and Am2yhihia. 123 



from Java and the species has, I think, not yet been recorded from 

 anywhere else. 



Ablabes flaticeps, (var.), Giinther. 

 Ann. and Mag. Nafc. Hisfc. vol. XYIII, 1866, p. 26, pi. vi, fig. B. 



One specimen agrees well with Gvinther's description and figm'e of this 

 snake, but it has nine upper labials, the second being replaced by two, so 

 that the 4th, 5th and 6th labials enter the orbit. The hinder chin-shields 

 are almost in immediate contact with the first well marked ventral. Total 

 length 16"7 inch., of which the tail is 5*5 inch., being somewhat obtuse at 

 the end ; scales in 17 rows, one prse- and one or two post-oculars, 150 ven- 

 trals, anal bifid, 70 subcaudals. 



Head yellow, somewhat tinged with brown in front, a straight black 

 streak through the eye and a white one along the upper labials. The 

 general colour of the upper side is brown, powdered with grey ; a light blue 

 band begins on each side of the neck, continuing on each side of the back, 

 the colour gradually turning to grey, but both bands remain tolerably 

 distinct to the tip of the tail. On the front part of the body each 

 is marked with squarish black spots along the inner edge, further on 

 the spots become smaller, alternate in position on the two sides, but 

 are somewhat removed from the internal margins towards the middle line. 

 Below, yellowish, all the ventrals, (except those on the neck), with narrow 

 blackish hind edges about the middle of the bod};^, almost meeting in the 

 centre, but further on the black becomes more confined to the outer mar- 

 gins, and on the subcaudals it forms a serrated black band on either side, 

 as in Ablabes melanocephalus, to which the present species bears a very 

 strong resemblance. Dr. Griinther mentions in his specimen only the presence 

 of a black spot on either side of the ventrals, 



GONYOSOMA OXTCEPHALUM. 



f A very large specimen, measuring about five feet, has the scales round 



the body in 27 series ; it is sea-green, the tail strongly tinged with rubes- 

 cent brown, the sutures of the scales being blackish ; the dark streak on the 

 side of the head is very indistinct ; upper labials whitish green. 



DeNDROPHIS CAUDOLINEATrS. 



Dr. Giinther when noticing my paper on Penang Beptiles in the Zool. 

 Record for 1870, says that I described his D. caudolineolatas (from Ceylon), 

 • • as -D. caudolmeatus of Gray. I should have hardly expected such a brief dis- 

 missal of the consideration of all other points connected with the identification 

 of this species. Dr. Giinther appears to have noticed merely my statement 

 regarding the thirteen rows of scales round the body, and to this one charac- 

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