74 COLUBEID^. 



broad, just visible from above ; internasals broader than long, much 

 shorter than the prssfrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as- 

 broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, a little 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal a little longer than deep ; three 

 prseooulars, the upper not reaching the frontal ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals l+S or 2 + 3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are nearly as long as the posterior. Scales in 

 19 rows, scarcely oblique, vertebrals very feebly enlarged. Ventrals 

 220 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 99. Grey-brown above, with lighter 

 black-edged transverse spots ; a series of black spots along each 

 side, near the ventrals; a blackish band behind the eye; labial 

 sutures blackish ; lower parts whitish, powdered with brown. 



Total length 550 miUim. ; tail 130. 



Ceylon. 



a. S (V. 220 ; C. 99), Ceylon. B. H. Barnes, Esc[. [P.].. 



(Type.) 



15. Dipsadomorphus drapiezii. 



Dipsas drapiezii, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 559 ; 8chleg. Fhys. Serp. ii, 

 p. 270, pi. xi. flgs. 8 & 9 (1837), and Abbild. p. 48, pi. xv. (1840) ; 

 GiXnth. Cat. p. 171 (1858), and Ann. <§• Mag. N. H. (3) ix. 1862, 

 p. 53 ; F. Mull. Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, viii. 1887, p. 276. 



Triglyphodon drapiezii, Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 1097 (1854). 



Dipsas drapiezii, var. banoana, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 26. 



Anterior palatine and mandibular teeth moderately enlarged. 

 Eye as long as the snout. Eostral broader than deep, scarcely 

 visible from above ; internasals broader than long, shorter than the 

 prsefrontals ; frontal as long as broad or slightly longer than broad, 

 as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal small or absent ; one prseocular, in contact with 

 or narrowly separated from the frontal ; two postoculars ; temporals 

 2-1-2, 2 -f- 3, or 3-|-3; eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth, 

 or fourth and fifth, entering the eye ; five or six lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or a 

 little longer than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, vertebral row 

 strongly enlarged. Yentrals 250-276 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 

 114-163. Pale brown above with dark transverse spots, or brown 

 with yellowish or reddish, dark-edged pale transverse bands each of 

 which ends in a white spot on the side of the belly ; brownish 

 white below, uniform or speckled with brown, with two more or 

 less distinct brown longitudinal lines. 



Total length 1300 millim. ; tail 350. 



Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



o. Yg.(V.270;C. 147). Malacca. D. F. A. Hervey, 



Esq. [P.]. 



b. 2 (V. 272 ; C. 158). Singapore. 



c. ? (V. 259 ; 0. ?). E. Coast of Sumatra. Mrs. Findlay [P.]. , 



