148. BIPSABOMORPHTJS. 75 



d, e. $ (V. 267; C. 136) Sarawak. Eaiai Brooke [P.]. 



&yg.(V. 260; 0.151). 

 /. $ (V. 276 ; C. 170). Sandakan, N. Borneo. Douglas Cator, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 g. ^ (V. 264; 0.145). Java. 



In the vax. Icmcana, Peters, ■wHch is stated to resemble closely 

 the Dipsas indica of Laurenti {B. hucejahala, Shaw), the loreal is 

 ■well developed, the prseoctilar is divided, and the dark lines along 

 the belly are absent. 



16. Dipsadomorphus angulatus. 



Bipsas (Dipsadomorphus) angulata, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1861, 



p. 688. 

 (Eudipsas) guiraonis, Stand. Novara, Hept. p. 76, pi. iii. 



figs. 9-10 (1867). 



Closely allied to B. drapiezii. Erontal longer than broad, longer 

 than its distance from the end of the snout ; loreal well developed, 

 as long as deep ; preeocular nearly reaching the frontal ; two post- 

 oculars ; temporals 2+2 or 2+3 ; eight upper labials, third, fourth, 

 and fifth entering the eye ; anterior chin-shields nearly thrice as 

 large as the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, vertebral row strongly 

 enlarged. Ventrals 254-268 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 126-135. 

 Greyish or yellowish brown above, with dark brown spots and dots 

 and with dark cross-bars which widen on the sides and extend 

 across the belly, but are interrupted on the vertebral line ; large 

 whitish spots on the sides, extending on the ventrals, between the 

 dark bars. 



Total length 1015 millim. ; tail 240. 



Leyte, Philippine Islands. 



17. Dipsadomorphus irregularis. 



Merrem, Beitr. ii. p. 23, pi. iv. (1790). 



Ooluber irregularis, Merr. in Bechst. Uebers. Lacip. iv. p. 239, 



pi. xxxvii. fig. 1 (1802). 

 Hurria pseudoboiga, Dmid. Bept. v. p. 277, pis. lix. figs. 8 & 9, & 



Ixvi. figs. 1 & 3 (1803). 

 Boiga irregularis, Fitzing. N. Class. Bept. p. 60 (1826). 

 Dipsas irregularis, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 649 ; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 



p. 271, pi. xi. figs. 12 & 13 (1837) ; Oiinth. Cat. p. 172 (1858) ; 



Jan, Icon. ,Gen. 37, pi. i. (1870) ; Peters Sr Bona, Ann. Mus. 



Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 394 ; BoeUg. Ber. Ofenb. Ver. Nat. 1885, 



p. 163. 

 Triglyphodon irregularis, Bum. ^ Bihr. vii. p. 1072 (1864). 

 Dipsas pallida, Jan, Elenco, p. 103 (1863), and Icon. G6n. 38, pi. v. 



fig. 1 (1871). 

 Pappophia laticeps, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.8. W. ii. 1877, 



p. 39. 



fiavigastra, Macleay, I. c. p. 40. 



Dipsas aruanus, Giinth. Ann. $ Mag. N. S. (6) xi. 1883, p. 137. 



Anterior palatine and mandibular teeth strongly enlarged. 

 Eostral broader than deep, just visible from above; internasals 



