121. OALAMAEIA. 341 



oaudals 15-28. Tail obtuse. Dark brown or black above, uniform 

 or witb yellowish spots, or yeUowish with brown spots ; lower parts 

 blackish, uniform or variegated with yellow, or yellow in the middle 

 and black on the sides. 



Total length 440 miUim. ; tail 30. 



Sumatra, Java, Celebes. 



A. Dark brown or black above, with yellow spots; lower parts 



black and yeUow. 

 a-b. 6 (V. 170; C. 27) Manado, Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



& ? (V. 193 ; C. 19). 



B. Dark brown with yeUow spots above, uniform black beneath. 



c. $ (V. 108; C. 15). Java. Dr. Ploem [C.]. 



C. Dark brown above, with small black spots or lines, without 



yellow spots or with only a few on the anterior part of the 

 body ; ventrals yellow in the middle, black on the sides. 



d. ? (V. 199 ; C. 19). Java. Dr. Ploem [0.]. 

 e-g, h-i. cJ (V. 158, 156, Rarahan, Java. Dr. Beccari [C] ; 



156, 163 ; C. 26, 28, 26, Marquis G. Doria 



25)&$(V.183;0.15). [P.]. 



kr-l, m-o. S (V. 164, 162 ; Mt. Singalang, Dr. Beccari [C.l ; 



C. 24, 24) & $ (V. 178, Sumatra. Marquis G. Dona 



174,179; 0.20,18,19). [P.]. 



p. 2 (V. 196 ; 0. 18). Manado, Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [0.]. 



D. Uniform black above and below. 



q. tj (V. 151 ; 0. 22). Fort de Kock, Dr. Bleeker. 



Sumatra. (Type of C. monochrous.) 



15. Calamaria lencogaster. 



Calamaria leucogaster. Sleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxi. 1860, 

 p. 293; Giinth. Ann. 8r Mag. N. H. (3) xv. 1865, p. 89 ; Edeling, 

 Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxxi. 1870, p. 381. 



arcticeps, CfUnth. Ann. 8j Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, p. 25, 



pi. vi. fig. C. 



Snout rather pointed ; rostral as deep as broad, weU visible from 

 above ; frontal longer than broad, shorter than the parietals, about 

 twice as broad as the supraocular ; one prse- and one postocular ; 

 diameter of the eye equal to its distance from the mouth ; five 

 upper labials, second larger than first or third, third and fourth 

 entering the eye, or (spec, d) six upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; first pair of lower labials forming a suture behind 

 the symphysial ; two pairs of chin-shields, in contact with each other. 

 Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 133-151 ; anal entire ; suboaudals 14- 

 17, . Tail ending in a point. Brown above ; nape blackish, foUowed 

 by a narrow yellow collar ; tail with two blackish transverse spots ; 

 uniform yellowish inferiorly. 



Total length 200 millim. ; tail 13. 



Sumatra, Borneo, 



