194 COLITBEIDiE. 



bell-shaped. Body slender, compressed ; scales smooth, oblique, 

 with apical pits, in 15 rows; ventrals with suture-like lateral keel 

 and a notch on each side corresponding to the keel. Tail long ; 

 subcaudals in two rows, keeled and notched like the ventrals. 

 South-eastern Asia. 



1. DryopMops mbescens. 



Dipsaa rubescens, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. Ixxxiv. fig. 2 (1834). 

 Leptophis rubescens, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1855, 



p. 293. 

 Chrysopelea rubescens, part., Gunth. Cat. p. 145 (1858), and Sept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 299 (1864). 

 Dryophis rubescens, Jim, Elenco, p. 88 (1863), and Icon. (?e». 32, 



pi. -pi. fig. 1 (1869). 

 Chrysopelea rubescens, StoUczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, 



p." 195. 



Eostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal once and a half to 

 once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as its distance from 

 the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal much elon- 

 gate ; one prseocular, forming a suture with the frontal ; two or 

 three postoculars ; temporals 2+2; nine upper labials, fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are much shorter than 

 the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 188-199 ; anal divided ; 

 subcaudals 111-136. Bronzy or reddish brown above, with small 

 bilack spots; upper surface of head with undnlous longitudinal 

 markings ; a dark streak on each side of the head, passing through 

 the eye ; a median dark streak on the occiput and neck ; labials 

 with a few small black spots ; lower parts yellow in front, reddish 

 behind, dotted with darker, with or without scattered small black 

 spots. 



Total length 750 millim. ; tail 210. 



Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Natuna Islands. 



^. 5 (V. 189 ; 0. 115). Malay Peninsula? Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



(Type.) 

 i. ?* (V. 192; 0. ?). Malay Peninsula ? Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



c. d' (V. 192; 0. 119), Sumatra. Dr. Bleeker. (Bm- 



drophis swmatra- 



nus, Blkr.) 

 d-e. d (V. 191 ; 0. 125) Sarawak. Sir H. Low [P.]. 



& ? (V. 199; C. 112). 

 /. S (V. 188 ; 0. 118). Sandakan, N. Borneo. Douglas Cator, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 g. 5 (V. 191 ; 0. 111). Sirhassen, Natuna Ids. A. Everett, Esq. [0.]. 



* The specimen contains a Draco melanopogon, Blgr., which species was 

 first described from Malacca, and has since been found in the Natuna Islands 

 and North Borneo. 



