103. ABLABES. 281 



5. Ablaljes stoliczkae. 



Ablabes stoliczk®, W. L. Sclater, Journ. As. Soc. Seng. Ix. 1891, 

 p. 234, pi. yi. fig. 1 ; Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) xiii. 1893, 

 p. 325. 



Snout rather long and mueli depressed, twice as long as the dia- 

 meter of the eye; rostral much broader than deep, visible from 

 above ; nasal undivided, thrice as long as deep ; internasals a little 

 shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal not broader than' the supra- 

 ocular, nearly as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter tlian the parietals ; a small loreal; one prse- and two post- 

 oculars ; temporals 1+2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 15 

 rows. Ventrals 150-154; anal divided; subcaudals 116-134. 

 Pale olive-brown above ; upper lip and lower parts yellowish white ; 

 a black streak from the eye along the temple and the side of the 

 neck, separating the brown colour of the upper parts from the 

 white of the lower. 



Total length 600 millim. ; tail 255. 



Mountains of Burma and Assam. 



6. Ablabes tricolor. 



Herpetodryas tricolor, Sclileg. Pliys. Serp. ii. p. 187, pi. vi. figs. IS- 

 IS (1837). 



Cyclophis tricolor, Giinth. Cat. p. ] 21 (1858), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1872, p. 590 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 1873, p. 122. 



Liopeltis tricolor. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 659 ; Jan, Icon. 

 Gen. 31, pi. vi. fig. 2 (1869). 



Snout rather long and depressed, twice as long as the diameter 

 of the eye ; rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; nasal 

 undivided ; suture between the internasals as long as or a little 

 shorter than that between the praefrontals ; frontal not broader than 

 the supraocular, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; no loreal, the prsefrontal in contact with 

 the second and third labials ; one prse- and two postoculars ; 

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

 eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are a little shorter than the posterior. Scales in 

 15 rows. Ventrals 140-187 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 103-130. 

 Olive or greenish above ; a black streak on each side of the head 

 and anterior part of the body, passing through the eye ; upper lip 

 and lower parts yellowish white ; a pale oUve streak along each side 

 of the belly. 



Total length 560 millim. ; tail 220. 



Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



a. c? (V. 140 ; C. 118). Java. Leyden Museum. (One of the 



types.) 

 6. 2 (V. 187; C. 108). Java. A. Scott, Esq. [P.]. 



