78 COLITBEID^. 



II. Maxillary teeth 27 to 33 ; eye usually longer than its distance 

 from the nostril. 



A. Scales in 15 rows. 



Two postooulars; vertebral scales scarcely 



enlarged on the anterior part of the 



body ; ventrals 174-188 5. grandoculis, p. 84. 



Usually three postoculars ; vertebral 



scales very strongly enlarged ; ventrals 



179-205 6. formosus, p. 84. 



B. Scales in 13 rows. 



Two postooulars ; ventrals 149-161 ; 



subcaudals 124-128 7. caudolineolatus, p. 85. 



Two postoculars ; ventrals 173-203 ; 



subcaudals 131-151 8. lineolatus, p. 85. 



Three postoculars ; ventrals 162 ; sub- 

 caudals 148 9. gastrostictus, p. 86. 



1. DendropMs pictus. 

 ? Coluber ahsetuUa, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 35, pi. xxii. fig. 3 



(1754). 

 ? Coluber ahstuUa, part., Linn. 8. JST. i. p. 387 (1766). 

 ? Natrix ahastuUa, Laur. Syn. Mept. p. 79 (1768). 

 Coluber pictus, Omel. S. N. i. p. 1116 (1788). 



decorus, Shmc, Zool. iii. p. 688 (1802). 



Dipsas sohokari, part., Kuhl, Bdtr. Zool. vergl. Anat. p. 80 (1820). 

 AhaetuUa decorus, Gray, Ann. Fliil. x. 1825, p. 208. 

 Leptophis ahffitulla, part., Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 1825, p. 328. 

 Dendrophis picta, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 530 ; Stoliozka, Journ. As. Soo. 



Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 193. 

 ? Dendrophis polyohroa, Boie, I. c. 



AhsetuUa bellii. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. Ixxx. (1834). 

 Dendrophis pictus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 228, pi. ix. figs. 5-7 



(1837) ; Hum. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 197 (1854) ; Oirard, U.S. Explor. 



Exped., Serp. p. 129 (1858) ; Gunth. Cat. p. 148 (1858), and Rept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 297 (1864) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 32, pi. i. fig. 3 (1869) ; 



Theoh. Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 190 (1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., 



Bept. p. 337 (1890). 

 Leptophis pictus, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Bept. p. 82 (1847). 

 AhsetuUa picta, part., Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 556. 

 Dendrophis picta, var. andamanensis, Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 



p. 184. 

 Leptophis formosus, Jan, Icon. Gin. 49, pi. vi. fig. 2 (1879). 



Maxillary teeth 23 to 26. E3'e as long as its distance from the 

 nostril. Kostral much broader than deep, visible from above ; 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than the praefrontals ; 

 frontal once and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal elongate (in one specimen 

 divided into two, in another fused with theprsefrontal) ; one prae- 

 and two postoculars; temporals 2 + 2, rarely 1 + 1 or 1+2; nine 



