OPHIDIA. 825 



Descr. Cat. Kept., Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 190 ; Ferguson, Kept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 20. 

 Ahmtulla dellii,Gvsij, 111. Ind. Zool., vol. i, 1834, pi. Ixxx %. 2. 

 Dendrophis boii, Cantor, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 53. 

 Leptophispictus, Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, 1847; Cat., p. 930. 



This species is prevalent at Bliamd. 



The labials in the three specimens under consideration are variable. In one 

 example there are 9 upper labials on one side and 10 on the other, and the tenth 

 labial resulting from the division of the ninth : on both sides, the fourth, fifth and 

 sixth are orbital. In the other two specimens there are only 8 upper labials, the 

 fifth and sixth being united ; the fifth alone entering the orbit. 



Length 34-55 inches; tail IQ-OO inches; ventrals 177; sub-caudals 96 

 » 22-00 „ ,, 9-33 „ „ 168 „ 105 



» 39-33 „ „ 13-00 „ ,, 188 „ 143 



Genus Chrysopelea, Boie. 



Cheysopelea ornata, Shaw. 



Russell, Ind. Serp., vol. i, 1796, pi. ii. 



Coluber ibihoboca, Latr. Kept., vol. iv, 1800, p. 131 ; Daud., Kept., vol. vi, 1803, p. 327. 



Coluber ornatus, Shaw, Genl. Zool., vol. iii, 1802, p. 477. 



Natrix ornata, Merr. Tentam, 1820, p. 109. 



Tyria ornata, Fitz., New Class. Kept., 1826, p. 60. 



Chrysopelea ornata, Boie, Isis., 1827, pp. 546, 547 ; Wagler, Amph., 1830, p. 188 ; Dum. & Bibr., 



Erpet. Genl., vol. vii, 1854, p. 1042; Giinther, Cat. Col. Snakes, 1858, p. 146; Kept. Brit. 



Ind., 1864, p. 298; Steind., Eeise Novara Rept, 1867, p. 71; Jan & Sord., Icon. Genl., 



No. xxxiii, 1869, pi. i, fig. 1 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, vol. xxxix, 1870, pp. 141, 194; 



id., op. cit., vol. xliii, 1873, p. 114 ; Anderson, op. cit., vol. xl, 1871, p. 35; Theobald, Descr. 



Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 121; Ferguson, Rept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 20. 

 Chrysopelea paradisi, Boie, Isis., 1827, p. 547; Wagler, Amph., 1836, p. 188. 

 Dendrophis ornata, Schlegel, Ess. Phys. Serpt., 1837, p. 234, pi. ix,figs. 8, 10 ; id., Abbild., 1837-44, 



pi. vi, figs. 1-10; Filippi, Cat. Mus., Pavia, 1840. 

 Leptophis ornata. Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, 1847, p. 934 ; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, 



1854, vol. xxiii, p. 293. 

 Dendrophk paradisi. Motley & Dillwyn, Contrib. Nat. Hist., Labuan & Borneo, 1855, p. 460, fig. 



Ventrals 219. Sub-caudals imperfect. Anal bifid; 17 rows of scales. Five narrow 

 gamboge-yellow cross-bands on the head, alternating with four broad black ones. 

 The third black band is crescentic and the breadth of the diameter of the eye. It fills 

 the iatra-orbital space, and has a transverse line of three yellow spots. The fourth 

 black band covers the occipitals, and has a transverse row of 12 yellow spots, with 

 an odd one on either side. All the black bands are connected by another lateral one 

 above the upper labials which are yellow. The back is crossed by black bands, the 

 lateral margins of which are broken up into oblique black and yellow bars : these 

 dorsal bands narrow posteriorly. All the scales are gamboge-yellow with a longitu- 

 dinal black line through their centres, the hinder margin being tipped with black. 

 The longitudinal black lines are continuous, and the dusky hinder margins form 

 fine oblique lines, and the two together constitute a fine black network on a ricli 



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