402 COLTJBKID^. 



Callophis intestinalia, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 82, pi. xvi. 



figs. B & C, and Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 348 (1864) ; Meyer, Mon. 



Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 204, pis. i. & ii. ; StoUczka, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 212 ; Thedb. Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 211 



(1876). 

 furoatus, var. nigroteniatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, 



p. 404. 



intestinalis, var. malayana, GUnfh. I. c. p. 349. 



Adeniophis nigrotssniatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1871, p. 578. 

 Callophis maclellandii (non Eeinh.), Fayrer, Thanatoph. Ind. pi. i. 



(1874). 

 Adeniophis intestinalis, Meyer, Sitzi. Ak. Berl. 1886, p. 614; 



Bouleng. Faun. Ind., B^pt. p. 886 (1890J. 



malayanus, Meyer, I. c. 



Elaps sumatranus. v Lidth de Jeude, in M. Weber, Zool. Frgehn. i. 



p. 190 (1890 

 Callophis intestinalis, var. suluensis, Steind. Sitzb. Ah. Wien. c. i. 



1891, p. 295. 



Eye as long as or a little shorter than its distance from the 

 mouth. Eostral a little broader than deep ; frontal as long as 

 broad or slightly longer than broad, as long as or longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout ; one prae- and two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2 ; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the 

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

 shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 197-273 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 

 15-33. Brown or blackish above, with darker or lighter longi- 

 tudinal streaks ; tail pink or red beneath ; beUy with black cross-bars. 



Total length 580 millim. ; tail 45. 



Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Celebes. 



A. Forma ttpica. (^A. intestinalis, Laur., E. furcatus, Schn.). — 



Dark brown above, blackish towards the middle of the back ; 

 a narrow orange or yellow vertebral line, forked on the head 

 and extending on each side to the upper lip behind the nostril ; 

 a large subtriangular yellow temporal blotch usually present ; 

 a black stripe along each side, divided by a yellow line running 

 between the two outer series of scales ; barred black and yellow 

 beneath, the black bars as broad as or a little narrower than 

 the yellow. 



a. cJ (V. 255; 0.22). Java. 



b-d. (J (V. 249, 242, Willis Mt., Kediri, Java, Baron v. Huegel [C.]. 



231 ; 0. 26, 24, 26). 5000 ft. 



«. cJ (V. 224; C. 26). Labuan. Dr. Collingwood [P.]. 



B. Var. ANNBOTENs. As in the preceding, but vertebral line not 



bifurcating on the head. This variety completely connects the 

 preceding and the following. Specimen d black above and on 

 the sides, with three yellow lines. 



<i. 6 (V- 235 ; C. 25). Singapore. H. N. Ridley, Esq. 



[P.].- 

 i>. 2 (V. 247; 20). Labuan. L. L. DiUwyn, Esq. 



