125. HOMALOPSIS. 13! 



Total length 370 millim. ; tail 40. 

 Sumatra, Borneo. 



a. 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 136 ; C. P (Type.) 



28). 



6. Hgr. (Sc. 25 ; V. 156 ; , Sinkawang, Borneo. Dr. Bleeker. (Type 



0. 39). ' of Eurostus heteraspis.y 



15. Hypsiriina doriae. 



Homalophis doriae, Peters, Mm. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 577, and Ann, 

 Mus. Genova, iii. 1872, p. 38, pi. v. fig. 2. 



Rostral as deep as broad ; two internasals ; ^frontal once and 

 a half as long as broad, shorter than its distance from the end 

 of the snout, as long as or a little shorter than the parietals; 

 supraocular divided into two or three small shields; two loreals, 

 deeper than long ; one prse-, two or three post-, and two or three 

 suboculars ; temporals small, scale-like ; fifteen upper labials, the 

 five or six first deep and narrow, the following mostly transversely 

 divided ; a pair of large chin-shields, separated from the symphysial 

 by the first and second pairs of lower labials. Scales in 31 or 

 33 rows. Yentrals 141 ; anal divided ; subcaudaLs 45. Olive- 

 brown above ; bright yellow beneath, uniform or spotted or dotted 

 with blackish. 



Total length 800 millim. ; tail 120. The specimen in the 

 Collection (taU injured) measures 450 millim. from snout to vent. 



Borneo. 



a. ? (Sc. 33 ; V. 141 ; 0. ?). Sarawak. A. Everett, Esq. [0.].. 



,i-125. HOMALOPSIS. 



Homalopsis, Kuhl, Ids, 1822, p. 474; Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 64 (1842),. 



and Cat. Sn. p. 66 (1849) ; Gtinth. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 285 (1864) ; 



Bmdeng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 373 (1890). 

 Homalopsis, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 332 (1837) ; Bum. ^ 



Bibr. Erp. Gin. vii. p. 967 ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865,. 



p. 256. 

 Pythonia, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxviii. 1859, p. 297. 



Maxillary teeth 11 to 13, decreasing in length posteriorly,, 

 followed, after an interspace, by a pair of slightly enlarged, 

 grooved teeth; anterior mandibular teeth much longer than the 

 posterior. Head distinct from neck ; eye small, with vertically 

 elliptic pupU ; head-shields large ; nasals in contact behind the 

 rostral, semidivided, the cleft extending from the nostril to the first 

 labial; internasal single or divided; loreal present. Body cylin- 

 drical ; scales distinctly striated and keeled, without pits, in 37 to 

 47 rows ; ventrals well developed, not keeled. Tail moderate ; 

 suboaudals in two rows. 



South-eastern Asia. 



