70 colubkidjE. 



with minute blackish dots; lower parts yellowish, finely dottedl 

 with brown ; the outer ends of the ventrals salmon-pint. 



Total length 1100 miUim. ; taU 220. 



Travancore. 



o. $ (V. 241; 0.95). Peemad, 3300 feet. S. Dighton, Esq. [C] ;, 



H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 

 [P.]- (Type.) 



10. DipsadomorphTis dendrophilus. 



Seba, Thes. ii. pi. xxi. fig. 1 (1735). 



Coluber peruvianus, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 483, pi. cxxii. (1802). 



Dipaas dendrophila, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 549 ; Waffl. Icon. Amph.. 



pi. viii. (1828) ; ScMeff. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 263, pi. xi. figs. 1-3- 



(1837), and Ahbild. p. 133, pi. xlv. figs. 1-9 (1844) ; Cantor, Cat. 



Mai. Rept. p. 76 (1847) ; Motley ^ Dillwyn, Contr. Nat. Hkt. 



Lab. p. 47 (1865) ; Gunth. Cat. p. 169 (1868), andMept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 310 (1864) ; Jan, Icon. Gin. 38, pi. iv. fig. 2 (1871). 

 Triglyphodon dendrophilum, Bum. 4" Bibr. vii. p. 1086 (1854). 



gemmicinctum, Bum. ^ Bibr. t. c. p. 1091. 



Boiga dendrophila. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 264. 



Dipsas (Triglyphodon) gemmicincta, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1861,, 



p. 688. 



Anterior palatine teeth scarcely longer than the posterior ; ante- 

 rior mandibular teeth moderately enlarged. Eostral a little broader 

 than deep, just visible from above ; internasals broader than long^ 

 as long as or shorter than the praeifrontals ; frontal as long as broad 

 or a little longer than broad, as long as or a little shorter than it& 

 distance from the end of the snout ; loreal as long as deep or a 

 little longer than deep (in one specimen, E. a, much longer than 

 deep and entering the eye below the prseocular) ; one prseocular,. 

 extending to the upper surface of the head but not reaching the- 

 frontal; two postoculars; temporals 2+2 or 2-i-3; eight (excep- 

 tionally nine) upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the 

 eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are as large as or a little larger than the posterior. 

 Scales in 21 (rarely 23) rows, vertebral row more or less strongly 

 enlarged. Ventrals 209-239 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 89-110,. 

 Coloration very variable. 



Total length 1900 millim. ; taU 370. 



Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



A. Black above, with 40 to 46 narrow yellow cross-bars which are- 

 mostly continuous across the back ; upper labials yellow, 

 black-edged ; ventrals in the anterior third of the body yellow, 

 spotted with black, further back black, uniform or spotted or 

 speckled with yeUow. {B. dend/rophila, Boie.) 



a, h, c. S (V. 220, 220 ; 0. ?, Java. Lidth de Jeude Col- 



98) & ? (V. 226 ; C. 93). lection. 



d. cT (V. 216; C.?). Java. Zoological Society. 



