196 COtUBRID^. 



Snout mueli depressed, squarely truncate. Rostral broader thanj 

 deep, just visible from above ; internasals shorter than the prse- 

 frontds ; frontal once and a half to once and three fourths as long 

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

 than the parietals ; loreal much elongate ; one prseoeular, in contact 

 with or separated from the frontal; two postoculars; temporals- 

 2+2 ; nine upper labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye ; five 

 (rarely four) lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 

 which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows, three or 

 more median rows feebly but distinctly keeled. Ventrals 202-221 ;. 

 anal divided ; subcaudals 146-180. Pale olive-brown or greenish) 

 to blackish above ; a darker streak on each side of the head, passing 

 through the eye; upper lip whitish; ventrals yellowish or pale- 

 greenish. 



Total length 1160 millim. ; tail 380. 



Moluccas, Sangir Island, Coram, Tenimber Islands. 



A. Dark brown or blackish above, the scales lighter in the centre ;: 



outer row of scales red, black-edged ; ends of ventrals above 

 the keel red; a black streak along the lower surface of the 

 tail. (G. rhodopleuron, Boie.) 



a. $ (V. 213 ; 0. 167). Amboyna. Leyden Museum. 



b-c. d (V. 203 ; C. 164) Mysol. 

 & ? (V.205; 0.?). 



d. 2 (V. 218 ; 0. 155). N. Ceram. 



e. d (V. 204 ; C. 173). Timor Laut. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



B. Uniform olive above, yellow beneath. (0. vicina, Gthr.) 

 a. 2 (V. 221 ; C. 146). Mysol. (Type of C. vicina.) 



2. Chrysopelea ornata. 



Seba, Thes. i. pi. xciv. fig. 7 (1734), and ii. pi. vii. fig. 1, pi. Ivi. fig. 1^ 



and pi. Ixi. fig. 2 (1735) ; Mussell, Ind. Serp. ii. pi. ii. (1801). 

 Coluber ornatus, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 477 (1802). 



ibibiboca, Baud. Rept. vi. p. 327 (1803). 



Tyria ornata, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 60 (1837). 



Chrysopelea ornata, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 646 ; Dum. 8r Bibr. vii. 



p. 1042 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. Oen. 33, pi. i. fig. 1 (1869) ; Stoliczka, 



Journ. As. Soe. Beng. ixxix. 1870, p. 194 ; Xheob. Cat. Rept. Brit. 



Ind. p. 191 (1876) ; Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 825 (1879) ; 



Boettg. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 1888, p. 84 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind.. 



Rept. p. 371 (1890). 



paradisi, Boie, Lcp. 547. 



Dendrophis ornata, part., Schleg. Phys. Seip. ii. p. 234, pi. ix. figs. 8-10 



(1837), and Abhild. p. 19, pi. vi. figs. 3-10 (1837). 

 Leptophis ornatus, part.. Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 87 (1847). 

 Dendrophis paradisii, Motley 8^ Dillwyn, Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 46, 



pL — (1856). ■ 

 Chrysopelea ornata, part., Cfiinth. Cat. p. 146 (1858), and Rept. Brit. 



Ind. p. 298 (1864). 

 ~ — rubescens, part., Cfiinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 299. 



