DENDROPHIDA. 37 
The following species occur in India, viz.: . 
No. 1. D. gonyosoma, Wagl. 
2. D. phyllophis, Giinther. 
3. D. dendrophis. 
4. D. erysopelea. 
South Africa furnishes three species, viz. : 
No. 5. D. semivariegata. 2 varieties. 
6. D. natalensis. 1 variety. 
7. D. albovariegata. 1 “ 
4 varieties. 
Australia furnishes two species, viz.: 
No. 8. D. punctulata, 1 variety (Green Tree Snake). 
9. D. calligastra, 1 variety (Northern Tree Snake). 
10. D. multimaculatus (nobis), is an East India 
species, known as Goobra in Hyderabad. 
Length 3’ 2’, diameter 3/7, Iength of tail one foot, very slender, and 
terminates in a sharp point. Head broader than the neck, long, ovate, 
depressed, and covered with nine lamin; occiput is covered with small 
orbicular scales; mouth large; three rows of teeth in the upper jaw; no 
fangs ; eyes large, oval; nostrils large, open; trunk covered with small, 
linear, oval scales; middle of back somewhat depressed, its scales are 
obovate; two rows of oval scales on the sides of the scuta; colorof head 
and trunk a dark sepia brown, but a shade of lighter color runs along 
the ridge of the spine; towards the scuta the abdominal oval scales are 
whitish, spotted with black, up to the middle of trunk, thence to the end 
of the tail they are of the same cineritious color as the scuta; some of 
the dark-brown scales on the sides are tipped with black above, and with 
a beautiful azure blue below. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This variety is said to grow much larger, and to be found 
mostly on trees ; not known to be poisonous. 
