103. 



AULABES. 



r9 



labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in ] 5 rows, with a very feeble 

 keel along their anterior half. Ventrals 174-192 ; anal divided 

 suboaudals 70-82. Olive above, the scales lighter in the centre 

 the lower scale on each side yellowish, margined with olive or black 

 young with dark spots anteriorly and four dark longitudinal bands 

 on the hinder half of the body, which disappear or become rather 

 indistinct in the adult ; upper lip and lower parts uniform 

 yellowish. 



Total length 770 millim. ; tail 160. 



Loo Choo Islands and Japan. 



a-e. cJ (V. 190, 190, 190 ; Loo Choo Ids. H. Fryer, Esq. [P.]. 

 C. 82, 76, ?j & 5 (V. 192, 

 187; C. 70, 72). 

 /. Yg. (V. 185 ; 0. 76). Great Loo Choo Mr. Hoist [0.]. 



Island. 

 g. Yg. (V. 174 ; C. 74). Nagasaki. Mr. Whitely [0.]. 



(Type of C. nebulosus.) 



2. Ablabes major. 



Cyclophis major, Giinth. Cat p. 120 (1858), and Mept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 230, pi. xvii. fig. I (1864). 

 Herpetodryas chloris. Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 503. 

 Ablabes major, Boettg. Ber. Senckenb. Oes. 1894, p. 140. 



Kostral as deep as broad or a little broader than deep, just 

 visible from above ; nasal divided ; eye about two thirds the length 

 of the snout; suture between the internasals shorter than that 

 between the prsefrontals ; frontal as long as or a little longer than 

 its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal longer than deep ; one prse- and two postooulars ; temporals 

 1 + 2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye; four 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 broader and a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 1-5 rows. 

 Ventrals 163-177; anal divided; subcaudals 70-87. Uniform 

 green above, yellow beneath. 



Total length 960 millim. ; tail 250. 



China. 



a. 9 (V. 163; C. 71). NearNingpo. (Type) 



b. 2 (V. 170; C. 82). Chusan Archipelago. J.J. Walker, Esq. [P.]. 

 c (S (V. 164 ; 0. 79). Shanghai. E. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.l. 

 d-e. $ (V. 170 ; C. 87) & Mountains North of A. E. Pratt, Esq. [C.J. 



yo-. (V. 160 ; C. 82). Kiu Kiang. 



fi °2 (V. 170, 168, 176, Island of Formosa. K. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



171 ; C. 86, 86, 8-5, 83). 

 ^-m. $ (V. 168, 171, 169; China. 

 C. 70, 76, 77). 



3. Ablabes donae. 



Cyclophiops doriae, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Geneva, (3) vi 

 pi. vi. iig. 1. 



1888, p. 599, 



