SERPENTES. 121 



Calamaria sondaica Barbour 

 Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1908, 51, p. 319. 



Type: — No. 7,102, M. C. Z., one specimen, Buitenzorg, Java, April, 1907. 

 T. Barbour, collector. 



Rostral very nearly as deep as broad, easily visible from above; frontal a 

 little longer than broad, considerably shorter than the parietals, a little more 

 than twice as broad as a supraocular; one pre- and one postocular; diameter 

 of the eye a little less than its distance from the mouth; five upper labials, the 

 first nearly three times as large as the second, which is smaller than the third 

 or fourth. These are subequal and enter the eye. The fifth is larger than the 

 third and fourth together. A pair of infralabials in contact between the mental 

 and the anterior pair of chin-shields. Scales in 13 rows; ventrals, 154; anal 

 entire; subcaudals 10. Tail rather obtuse. Dark reddish brown above (with fine 

 plumbeous iridescence in life) ; six dark lines just visible on neck, very indistinct 

 on body; rows of scales separated by zigzag white lines; a lateral white line on 

 last row of scales. Ventral surfaces white (yellow in Ufe), very heavily blotched 

 with angular dark markings; a black line down midventral region of the tail, 

 and two black lateral Unes on tail. 



It was with great reluctance that this new species was described. No 

 ophidian genus cries for a revision more than Calamaria. Nevertheless, this 

 new form seems to merit recognition on account of several distinctive characters. 



Superficially, i. e. in coloration, this form does not bear the slightest re- 

 semblance to its nearest relative, which is C. virgulata; nor, it may be added, 

 does it seem to agree with any of the forms which Boulenger (Cat. snakes Brit, 

 mus., 1894, 2, p. 340) has considered synonymous with this species. 



Calamaria albopunctata Barboub. 

 Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1908, 51, p. 319-320. 



Type: — No. 7,106, M. C. Z., one specimen from the East Indies. 



Rostral somewhat broader than deep; frontal longer than broad, much 

 shorter than parietals, and less than twice as broad as a supraocular; one pre- 

 one postocular; diameter of eye less than distance to mouth; five upper labials, 

 first, third, and fourth subequal; second and fifth large; third and fourth enter- 

 ing orbit; first infralabial meeting its fellow behind the symphysial; two pairs 

 of chin-shields in contact with each other. Scales in 13 rows; ventrals 247; anal 

 entire; subcaudals 14. Tail rather blunt. Dark brown above, a lighter band 



