124. HYPSIRHINA. 5 



long as broad, as long as or longer than its distance from the end of 

 the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep, in 

 oontact with the internasal ; one prae- and one or two postooulars ; 

 iemporals 1 + 2 ; eight upper labials, fourth entering the eye ; four 

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

 are larger than the posterior ; the latter separated from each other 

 by scales. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 125-152 ; anal divided ; 

 Buboaudals 24-36. Dark purplish brown above, usually with more 

 •or less distinct light (red?) cross-bars, the first on the occiput; 

 yellowish (red ?) beneath, with large alternating transverse black 

 ^pots or with irregular black cross-bars. 



Total length 465 millim. 



Java, Borneo. 



.a. $ {V. 152 ; 0. ?). Borneo." Dr. Bleaker. (JRabdosoma 



bomeensis, Blkr.) 

 i. Hgr. (V. 135 ; C. 24). Borneo. 



3. Hypsirhina plumbea. 



Homaiopsis plumbea, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 660 ; Schkg. Phys. Serp. ii. 



p. 346, pi. xiii. figs. 12 & 13 (1837) ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. kept. p. 101 



(1847). 

 Hypsirhina hardwicMi, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. Ixxxvii. fig. 1 



(1834), and Cat. p. 72 (1849). 

 Coluber plumbeus, JEyd. Sf Oerv. in Guar. Mag. Zool. 01. iii. 1837, 



pi. xvi. flg. 1. 

 Hypsirhina plumbea, Gi-ay, Zool. Misc. p. 66 (1842) ; Giinth. Mept. 



'Brit. Ind. p. 280 (1884) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, 



p. 261, and Icon. G4n. 30. pi. v. flg. 2 (1868) : Theob. Cat. Bept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 182 (1876) ; Boettg. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 1888, 



p. 83 : Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 376, fig. (1890). 

 Eurostus plumbeus, Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 955, pi. Ixxxiv. flff. 2 



(1854). 



Kostral much broader than deep ; internasal single, broader than 

 long ; frontal once and a half to once and two thirds as long as 

 l)road, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep or deeper than long ; one 

 prse- and two postooulars; temporals l-|-2; eight upper labials, 

 fourth or fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four or fiye lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-sbields, which are larger 

 than the posterior; latter separated by scales. Scales in 19 rows. 

 Ventrals 120-134 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 29-46. Brownish or 

 greyish olive above, uniform or with a vertebral series of small 

 black spots ; upper lip and lower parts white, usually with a 

 blackish line along the middle of the tail ; belly sometimes with 

 some blackish spots, or with a median series of blackish dots. 



Total length 485 millim. ; tail 65. 



Burma, Southern China, Indo-Chinai, Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. 



M-b. 6 (V. 128 ; 0. 40) Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [CI. 



& $ (V. 129; C. 33). 



