56 COLTJERIUa). 



g. Yg. (V. 220; A. 2; China. Dr. A, Gunther [P.]. 



C. 95). (Type of Phyllophis carmatn.) 



h,i. c? (V. 215; A. 2; China. ' K.Swinhoe,Esq.[C.]. 



C. 96) & 2 (V. 209; 



A. 2; C.90). 



28. Coluber davidi. 



Tropidonotus davidi, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) viii. 1884, 

 p. 144*. 



Snout slightly projecting ; eye rather large. Eostral visible from 

 above ; internasals as long as broad, two thirds the length of the 

 prDefrontals ; frontal twice as long as broad, as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, not longer than the parietals ; loreal 

 longer than deep ; two praeooulars, with^a suboeular below them ; two 

 postoculars ; temporals 2 + 3 or 3 + 4; eight upper labials, fourth 

 and fifth entering the eye. Scales in 23 rows, strongly keeled, 

 outer row smooth. Ventrals 173 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 70. 

 Yellowish brown, with large irregular brown spots ; head without 

 any markings. 



Total length 750 millim. ; tail 160. 



China. 



29. Coluber moellendorffli. 



Cynophis moellendorffii, Boettg. Zool. Anz. 1886, p. 520, and Ber. 

 Offenb. Ver. Naturk. 1888, p. 72, pi. i. fig. 1. 



Eostral broader than deep, visible from above; internasals 

 broader than long, hardly half as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal a 

 little longer than broad, not quite as long as its distance from the 

 rostral, a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal twice as long as 

 deep ; a large preeooular, in contact with the frontal, with a sub- 

 ocular below it; two postoculars; temporals 2 + 3 or 2 + 2; ten 

 upper labials, sixth and seventh entering the eye ; five lower labials 

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

 posterior. Scales in 27 rows, feebly but distinctly keeled, outer 

 rows smooth. Ventrals obtusely keeled laterally, 268-274 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 97-99. Grey above, with a dorsal series of 

 large, dark grey, black-edged hexagonal spots, and a lateral series 

 of alternating smaller spots ; yellowish-white inferiorly, largely 

 checkered with black. 



Total length 1655 millim. ; tail 310. 



Nanning and Canton, China. 



30. Coluber oxycephalus. 



Cobaber oxycephalus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 537 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., 

 Sept. p. 335 (1890); W. Sclater, Journ. As. Soc. Benq. Ix. 

 1891, p. 239. 



* I am indebted to Dr. Mocquard for notes on, and a sketch of, the head of 

 the type specimen preaerved in the Paris Museum. 



