11. MACEOPISTHODON. 267 



A?iat. rhjs. iii. 18C5, p. 284. mtd Icon. Gbi. 20, pi. ii. fig. ^ 



Xeiiodoii ihodomelas, Gunth. Cat. p. 58 (1858). 



Tropidoiiotus mortoni, Theob. Cat. liept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 57 (18G8). 



Maxillary teeth 12 to 15 + 2. Rostral at least twice as broad as 

 deep, scarcely visible from above ; internasals as long as broad, 

 shorter than the prsefroutals; frontal once and one fourth or once 

 and one third a.s long as broad, a little longer than its distance froji 

 the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal as 

 long as deep or a little deeper; one preeocular, usually veith a small 

 subooular below ; three or four postocuiars ; temporals 2 + 2, 2 + 3, 

 or 3 + 3; seven (rarely eight) upper labials, third aud fourth (or 

 fourth and fifth) entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields ; both pairs of chin-shields 

 broad and subequal in length, or hinder pair longer. Scales strongly 

 keeled, in 19 rows. Ventruls 128-138 ; anal divided ; subcaudais 

 42-58. Greyish or pale reddish brown above, with a dark brown 

 or black vertebral stripe ■n hich expands in a V-shaped blotch on 

 tlie nape ; lips, throat, and sides of belly pink, middle of belly 

 yellow ; a series of small black spots along each side of the belly. 



Total length 520 millim. ; tail 85. 



Mala}'^ Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java. 



a-b. cJ (V. 1.3.3 ; 0. rr2} Singapore. Dr. Dennys [P.]. 



& hgr. (V. 133; C. 47). 



c. Hgv. (V. 133 ; 0. 51). Singapore. W. Davison, Esq. 



[C.]. 



d. 2 (^'- 137; 0. 50). Matang. 



e. 2 {^'- l-i8; C. 58). Mt. Dulit, Borneo. C. Hose, Esq. [C.J. 

 /■. 2 (V. 134; 0. 4-2). .Java. 



(/. Yg. (V. 128 ; C. 60). F Col. Beddome. 



3. Macropisthodon plumbicolor. 



Tropidonotus plumbicolor, Cantor, Froc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 54 ; 



O'iinth. Kept. lint. Ind. p. 272 (18B4), and Zool. Sec. 1865, 



p. 154; iStoliczka, Jour?!. As. Soc. Beny. xl. 1871, p. 4.'i8 ; 



Anders. Froc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 17(5; Theoh. Cat. Sept. Brit. 



Ind. p. 179 (1876) ; Murrai/, Zool. Sind, p. 380 (1884) ; Boutent/. 



Faun, huh, Bcpt. p. 351 (189o). 

 Xenodiin viridis, l)um. ^- Bihr. vii. p. 763 (1854) ; Gi'inth. Cat. 



p. 57 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. FJiys. ii. 1^63, p. 319. 

 Ti]gonocephalus ellioti, Jerdon, Jonrn. .As. Soc. Bcng. x.\ii. 1854, 



p. 523. 

 Aniphiesiiia brachyurum, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, 



p. 2.37, and Icon. Gen. 29, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1868). 

 Halys ellioti, Theob. I. c. p. 225. 



Ifaxillary teeth 12 or 13 + 2. Eostral at least twice as broad as 

 deep, scarcelv visible from above ; internasals as long as broad or 

 broader, shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal once and one fourth 

 or once and one third as long as broad, as long as or a little longer 

 than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little 



