328 COLtrBHIDiB. 



shields longer thau the posterior. Scales in 1 5 rows. Ventrals 127 ; 

 anal entire ; suboaudals 28. Dark brown above, somewhat lighter 

 beneath ; a broad yellowish-white collar behind the parietals. 



Total length 190 millim. 



iSebroeang Valley, N.E. Borneo. 



119. KHABDOPHILIUM. 



Rabdion, part., Dum. §• Bibr. M^m. Ac. Sd. xxiii. 1853, p. 441, and 



Erp. Gin. m. p. 115 (1854) «. 

 Rhabdion, Oiinth. Cat. Col. 8n. p. 243 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. 



Anat. Phyi. ii. 1862, p. 28. 



Maxillary teeth 10 to 12, subequal ; mandibular teeth subequal. 

 Head not distinct from neck ; eye small, with round pupil ; nostril 

 pierced in a small nasal, which is in contact with or uarrowly 

 separated from the prseocular ; a pair of intern asals ; no temporals, 

 the parietals in contact with the labials. Body cylindrical ; scales 

 smooth, without apical pits, in 15 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail 

 short ; subcaudals in two rows. 



Celebes. 



1. RhabdopHdium forsteni. 



Rabdion forsteni, Bum. §• Bibr. vii. p. 116 (1854) ; Gunth. Cat. 

 p. 243 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 29, and 

 Icon. Gen. 13, pi. i. fig. 4 (1865). 



Snout rather pointed. Bostral broader than deep, well visible 

 from above ; suture between the internasals a little shorter than 

 that between the praefrontals ; frontal louger than broad, longer 

 than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than 

 the parietals, about twice as broad as the supraocular ; a rather 

 large prseocular, reaching or nearly reaching the nasal ; one post- 

 ocular ; five (or six) upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; 

 first lower labial in contact with its fellow behind the sj-mphysial ; 

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

 are longer than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 137- 

 158; anal entire; snbcaiidals 22-31. Uniform blackish above, 

 brown beneath. 



Total length 370 millim. ; tail 45. 



Celebes. 



a, b. 2 (V. 153, 158; 0. 26, 22). Celebes. 



120. PSEUDORHABDIUM. 



Rabdion, part., Dum. S^ Bibr. M&m. Ac. 8c. xxiii. 1863, p. 441, and 



Erp. G&n. vii. p. 115 (1864). 

 Pseudorabdion, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 10. 

 Oxycalamus, Gunth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 109 (1864). 



Maxillary teeth 10 to 12, subequal; anterior mandibular teeth 

 slightly longer than the posterior. Head not distinct from neck ; 



* Name preoccupied {Ehahdium, Wallr., 1833). 



