366 COLITBRIDiE. 



longer than deep ; two prse- and two postooulars ; temporals 1+2 

 or 2 + 2 ; nine upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four 

 or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 17 

 rows. "Ventrals 196-207; anal entire; subcaudals 73-90 pairs. 

 Brown above, yellowish beneath ; usually a brown spot at the outer 

 end of each ventral. 



Total length 1080 miUim. ; tail 180. 



Papuasia aud Cape York. 



a-b. Hgr. (V. 202, 204 ; Fly Elver, New Eev. S. Macfarlane [0.]. 



0. 75, 78). Guinea. 



c-e. cJ (V. 196 ; 0. ?) Murray Island, Eev. S. Macfarlane [0.]. 



& hgr, (V. 198, 197 ; Torres Straits. 



0. ?, 79). 



/. Hgr. (V. 204 ; 0. 79). Cape York. (Type of ZamenopMs 



anstralis.) 



2. Stegonotus modestus. 



Lycodon modestus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 119, pi. iv. iigs. 



16 & 17 (1837). 



modestum, Bum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 379 (1864). 



lividum, Bum. ^ Bibr. t. c. p. 381 ; Jan, Icon. Oen. 36, pi. iv. 



flg. 4 (1870). 

 Coronella rosenbergii, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxii. 1860, 



p. 37. 

 Ablates greineri, Bleek. I. c. p. 43. 



Coluber holochrous, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1803, p. 69, fig. 

 Brachyrhyton modestum, Jan, Icon. Oen. 35, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1870). 

 Lycodon parvus, A. B. Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 137. 

 aruensis, Boria, Ann. Mus. Geneva, vi. 1874, p. 352, pi. xii. 



fig. i ; Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Fhilom. (7) iii. 1879, p. 61. 

 Pseudolycodon lividus, Teters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1876, p. 533. 

 Lielapbis modestus, part., Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 129. 

 modestus, Peters §■ Boria, Ann. Mus. Genova, viii. 1878, 



p. 397. 

 lividus, Peters 8f Boria, I. c. p. 396. 



Rostral much broader than deep, the portion visible from above 

 measuring about one fourth its dibtanoe from the frontal ; inter- 

 nasals about two thirds the length of the praefrontals ; frontal as 

 long as broad or a little longer, as long as or a little shorter than 

 its distance from the end of the fenout, much shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; two (rarely one) prse- and two 

 postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 or 2-\-2 ; seven or eight (rarely nine) 

 upper labials, third and fourth (rarely fourth and fifth) entering 

 the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the 

 posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 175-212 ; anal entire ; 

 subcaudals 68-100 pairs. Upper parts brown, upper Jip and lower 

 parts yellowish ; a brown spot may be present at the outer end of 

 each ventral. 



Total length 1120 millim. ; tail 260. 



Moluccas and Papuasia. 



