124. HTP8IEHINA. 9 



three streaks on the occiput and nape ; second and third rows of 

 scales yellowish white ; ventrals, subcaudals, and outer row of 

 scales dark grey or olive anteriorly, yellowish white posteriorly. 



Total length 520 millim. ; tail 70. 



China; Siam*. 



■a. tJ (Y. 150 ; C. 46). China. J. R. Reeves, Es(i. [P.]. 



(Type.) 

 b. 5 (V. 143 ; 0. 41). China. Intern. Fisher. Exhib. 



1883. 

 /!. Hgr. (? (V. 148 ; C. 46). China. A. Adams, Esq. [C.]. 



■d. d CV. 150; C. 49). Ichang. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



*. cj (V. 151 ; C. 47). Hoi Ho-vv, Hainan. J. Neumann, Esq. [P.]. 



8. Hypsirhina macleayi. 



Pseudoferania macleayi, Douglas Offilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 (2) v. 1890, p. 61. 



Eostral nearly twice as broad as deep ; interna sal single or 

 divided, nearly twice as broad as long ; frontal a little broader than 

 the supraocular, nearly twice as long as broad, as long as its distance 

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

 triangular, longer than deep, in contact with or narrowly separated 

 from the internasal ; one or two prse- and one or two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2; eight or nine upper labials, fourth and fifth, 

 <ir fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye ; three lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which separate the 

 posterior. Scales in 21 or 23 rows. Ventrals 147-152; anal 

 divided; subcaudals 38-47. Grey or brown above, with small 

 black spots, which may be confluent into two streaks on the neck ; 

 a blackish stripe on each side of the head, body, and tail, passing 

 through the eye ; upper lip, two or three lower rows of scales, and 

 lower parts yellowish white ; a blackish streak on each side of the 

 beUy, between the ventrals and the first row of scales, and a broad 

 black stripe along the lower surface of the tail. 



Total length 635 millim. ; tail 105. 



Herbert River District, Queensland. 



a-c. c? (Sc. 23 ; V. 151 ; Herbert R. J. A. Boyd, Esq. [P.]. 



0.43) & yg. (So. 23; 

 V. 152, 150; 0.47,89). 



9. Hypsirhina polylepis. 



Hypsirhina polylepis, Fischer, Abh. Nat. Ges. Hamb. ix. 1886, 

 p. 14. 



Rostral broader than deep ; internasal single or divided, twice as 

 broad as long ; frontal broader than the supraocular, twice as long 

 as broad, slightly longer than its distance from the end of the 



* I have examined a specimen from Bangkok preserved in the Christiania 

 Museum. 



