10 



COLTTBRID^. 



snout, as long as or a little shorter than the parietals ; one or two- 

 prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1+2 or 1 + 3; eight upper 

 labials, fifth or 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 137-146; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 39-40. Dark olive or blackish above and on 

 the sides, with a yellowish lateral streak along the second row 

 of scales ; belly brown, spotted with yellowish, or with a yellowish 

 spot at the outer end of each ventral shield ; tail dark, with a 

 yellowish spot on each subcaudal shield. 



Total length 710 millim. ; tail 110. 



New Guinea. 



a, b-c. 2 (Sc. 23 ; V. 143 ; Fly River. Eev. S. Macfarlane TO.], 



C. 40) & hgr. (Sc. 21 ; 

 V. 137, 143 ; 0. 39, 40). 



10. Hypsirhina blanfordii. 



Hypsirhina maculata (non D. 4" S.), Blanf. Journ. As. iSoc. Beng, 

 xlviii. 1879, p. 180. 



maculosa, Blanf. Proc. Zool. 8oc. 1881, p. 226. 



blanfordi, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., B£pt. p. 377 (1890). 



Head short, with broad, square, truncated snout ; internasal 

 single, nearly as long as broad; frontal fully twice as long as 

 broad, a little shorter than the parietals ; one prse- and two 

 postoculars; temporals 1+2; eight upper labials, fourth entering- 

 the eye ; only one pair of large chin-shields, the posterior 

 pair scarcely exceeding the adjoining scales in size. Scales ia 

 25 rows. Ventrals 125 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 45. Colour 

 blackish ashy, with a row of large irregular-shaped black spots 

 along the back and another rather less in size, but each spot 

 including several scales, along each side ; a blackish band along 

 the margins of the ventrals, caused by the dark edges of the shields 

 and of the first row of scales on each side. 



Total length 300 millim. ; tail 45. 



Pegu. 



11. Hypsirhina bocourtii. 



Hvpsirhina bocourti, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 258, 



'and Icon. O&n. 28, pi. v. fig. 2 (1868). 

 Ferania sieboldii (non ScMeg.), Giinth. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (3) xviii 



1866, p. 28. 

 ? Hypsirhina multiliaeata, Tirant, Notes Sept. Cochinch. p. 41 



(1885). 



Eostral broader than deep ; a single internasal, about twice 

 as broad as long ; frontal narrow, narrower than the supraocular, 

 at least twice as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end 

 of the snout, a litile shorter than the parietals; loreal a little 

 longer than deep ; one prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1+2 j 

 eight upper labials, fourth entering the eye ; four or five lower 



