60. COLUBEE. 61 



as or a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout or 

 from the rostral, shorter than the parietals ; loreal not or hut 

 slightly longer than deep; one large praaocular; two postoculars, ; 

 temporals 2+2 or 2 + 3; nine upper lahials, fourth to sixth 

 entering the eye ; five or six lower lahials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 

 19 rows (21 on the neck), rather strongly keeled ; all the caudal 

 scales keeled. Ventrals with an ohtuse lateral keel, 193-234 ; 

 anal entire ; suhcaudals 89-109. Pale hrown anteriorly, with a 

 yeUow, hlack-edged vertebral stripe, which becomes gradually more 

 and more indistinct towards the hinder part of the body, which, 

 like the tail, is darker brown or black ; a series of black spots on 

 each side of the anterior part of the body, of ocelli with bright 

 yellow centres in the young ; some adult nearly uniform blackish 

 brown ; a black streak below the eye ; an oblique black streak from 

 the eye to the angle of the mouth, and another on the temple aud 

 neck. 



Total length 1500 millim. ; tail 380. 



Southern China, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Java. 



a. c7 (V. 214; 0.?). China. — Lindsay, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Yg. (V. 222; C. 100). Pinaug. Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



c. d (V. 217; C. 90). Singapore. Dr. Denuys [P.]. 



d. 9 (V. 219 ; C. 101). Sumatra. Leyden Museum. 

 eif. d (V. 217 ; C. 99) & Deli, Sumatra. Mr. Iveraen [0.]. 



9 (V. 222 ; 0. 100). 



o 9 (V. 221;C.?). Nias. Hr. Sundermann [C.]. 



h. Yg. (V. 216 ; C. 10-3). Borneo. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



i-k. Yg. CV. 203, 193; Borneo. L. L. Dillwyn, Esq 



C. 89, 90). [P.]- 



I. Hgr. (V. 212; C. 106). Borneo. Sir J. Brooke [P.l. 



m. 2 (V- 230 ; C. 102). Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [P.]. 



n-p, cj (V. 206; C. 107) RejangE., Sarawak. Brooke Low, Esq. [P.] 



& yg. (V: 207, 230; 



0. 101, 99). 



a. 9 (V. 234 ; C. 107). Sarawak. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



r c? (V. 208 ; C. 98). Baram, Borneo. C. Hose, Esq. [O.j. 



s. Hgr. (V. 221; 0.91). Java. 



t. Skull. Sarawak. 



36. Coluber radiatus. ~ 



Rmsell, Ind. Serj). ii. pi. xlii. (1801). 



Coluber radiatus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 135, pi. v. figs. 6 & 6 



(1837) ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Mept. p. 73 (1847) ; Bouleng. Faun. 



Ind., Sept. p. 333 (1890); W. Sclaier, Journ. As. Sue. Beng. 



Ix. 1891, p. 239. 



quadrifasciatus, Cantor, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 51. 



Tropidonotus quinque, Cantor, I. c. p. 64. 



Compsosoma radiatum. Bum. 8r Bibr. vii. p. 292 (1854) ; OiXnth. 



Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 243 (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 165 



(1876); Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 815 (1879). 



