64. BENBEOPHIS. 85 



to the nape, where it considerably widens ; no light lateral stripe ; 

 two black lines may be present along each side of the posterior part 

 of the body ; upper lip greenish yellow ; lower parts pale green. 



Total length 1310 millim. ; tail 450. 



Mountains of the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java. 



a. S (V. 196 ; 0. 158). Malacca. Governor of Singa- 



pore [P.], 

 b-c. 2 (V. 191, 190; C. Borneo. L. L. UiUwyn, Esq. 



148, ?). [P.]. 



d. cT {V. 182 : C. 146). Java. Leyden Museum. 



e. $ (V. 205 ; 0. 147). WimsMt9.,Kediri, Bavon v. Huegel [0.]. 



Java, 5000 feet. 



f. Hgr. $ (V. 195 1 0. Afghanistan (??). 



132). 



7. Dendrophis caudolineolatus. 



Dendrophis caudolineolatus, Gilnth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 506, 



pi. xl. fig. 1 ; Boideng. Faun. Ind., Sept. p. 339 (lS90). 

 f Dendrophis gregorii, Salj/, Taprobanian, iii. 1888, p. 51. 



Maxillary teeth 30 to 32. Eye large, as long as or slightly longer 

 than its distance from the nostril. Eostral once and two thirds as 

 broad as long, visible from above, upper border forming an obtuse 

 angle; internasals as long as or a littleshorter than the prefrontals; 

 frontal once and a half to once and two thirds as long as broad, 

 longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the 

 parietals ; loreal elongate ; one prseocular ; two postoculars ; tem- 

 porals 1 + 2 or 2+1 ; eight or nine upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 or fifth and sixth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are much shorter than 

 the posterior. Scales in 13 rows, vertebrals moderately enlarged, 

 as large as outer. Ventrals 149-161 ; anal divided ; suboaudals 

 124—128. Bronzy olive above, anteriorly with oblique narrow black 

 streaks ; tail with four more or less distinct black lines, one above, 

 one along the meeting-edges of the subcaudals, and one on each 

 side ; a black temporal streak ; lower surfaces greenish white. 



Total length 650 millim. ; tail 235. 



Ceylon. 



a. Hot. S (V. 149 ; C. 124). Ceylon. B. H. Barnes, Esq. 1 



[P.]. (Types.) 



h. Yg. (V. 161 ; C. 126). Ceylon. I 



c. Hgr. c? (V. 149; C. 128). Ceylon. 



8. Dendrophis lineolatns. 



Dendrophis lineolata, Hombr. ^ Jacq. Voy. P8lf. Sud, Zool. iii., Rept. 



p. 20, pi. ii. tig. 1 (1842) ; Samage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ii. 1878, 



p. 40. 



lineolata, part.. Bum. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 200 (1854). 



striolatus, Peters, Mon. Bed. Ac. 1867, p. 25. 



punctulatus, var. atrostriata, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 136. 



punctulatus, var. fasciata, Meyer, I. c. 



macrops, Gilnih. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 131, fig. 



