12 COLTJBEID^. 



Eostral nearly as deep as broad ; two internasals ; frontal broader 

 than the supraocular, as long as its distance from the end of the 

 snout, as long as the parietals ; loreal as long as deep or a little 

 deeper than long ; one prseocular, sometimes with a small subocular 

 below it; two postoculars ; temporals small, 1 + 2 ; seven or eight 

 upper labials, fourth entering the eye : four lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields very small. 

 Scales in 29 to 33 rows. Ventrals 147-156 ; anal divided ; sub- 

 «audals 48-56. Whitish or pale brown above, with dark brown 

 black-edged elliptical or rhomboidal transverse spots broader than 

 their interspaces ; a series of round spots on each side, alternating 

 with the doreal spots ; head with three dark brown longitudinal 

 bands, confluent between the eyes ; lower parts white, checkered 

 with black. 



Total length 365 mUlim. ; tail 67. Grows to 600 millim. 



India, Burma, Malay Peninsula. 



.a. Yg. (So. 33 ; V. 156 ; Bombay. Dr. Gunther [P.]. 



0. 56). 

 i. Yg. (Sc. 29 ; V. 147 ; Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



0. 50). 

 £. Hgr. (J (Sc. 29; V. ? 



147 ; C. 51). 



14. HypslrMna punctata. 



Phytolopsis punctata, Gray, Cat. p. 68 (1849). 



Eurostus heteraspis, Sleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xvi. 1859, 



p. 440. 

 Tachyplotus hedemanni, Reinh. Videnak. Meddel. 1866, p. 151, 



fig- 

 Pythonopsis borneensis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 576. 

 punctata, Peters, Ann. Mus. Oenova, iii. 1872, p.- 37 ; Gilnth. 



Proc. Zool. Sue. 1872, p. 590. 

 Homalophis doris, var., Steind. Sitzb. Ah. Wien, xcvi. i. 1887, 



p. 71. 

 Hypsirhina hageni, v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyd. Mus. xii. 1890, 



■p. 20, pi. i. 



Eostral slightly broader than deep ; a single small internasal ; 

 frontal not broader than the supraocular, at least twice as long as 

 broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, as long as 

 or a little shorter than the parietals ; one or two loreals ; one prae- 

 and two postoculars ; temporals small, scale-like ; twelve to fourteen 

 upper labials, the four or five first deep and narrow, the following 

 ■divided into smaU shields between the labials proper and the eye and 

 temporal shields ; five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are very large ; posterior chin-shields small and 

 separated by scales. Scales in 25 or 27 rows. Ventrals 135-156 ; 

 anal divided ; suboaudals 28-41. Dark olive-brown above, uniform 

 or with small yellow spots, which may form cross-bars ; one or two 

 yellow cross-bars on the nape ; a yellow transverse spot between the 

 eyes ; yellow beneath. 



