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Strongly iridescent, brownish-black, lighter on the head, scales with 

 whitish edges ; cheeks, lips and throat citrine ; the lowest row of scales 

 and abdominal surface yellowish white ; sub-caudal scutella faintly 

 marked with brown ; eyes and tongue black . 



Scuta 169; Scutella 26. 



Habit. — Pinang, Singapore. 

 Celebes, Java. 

 This variety differs in nothing but colours from the species describ- 

 ed by M. Schlegel. Of three individuals observed, two were taken by 

 Sir W. Norris and W, T. Lewis, Esq. in the hills of Pinang, the third 

 by Dr. Montgomerie at Singapore. The largest was of the following 

 •dimensions : 



Length of the head, 3-f inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 1 If 



Ditto ditto tail, If 



1 ft. If inch. 



Circumference f- inch. 



The livery bears a remarkable resemblance to that of Calamaria alba 

 (Linne), (C. brachyorrhos, Schlegel,) from which it however differs in 

 the absence of the anterior frontal shields, and in having 13 instead 

 of 17 longitudinal series of scales. 



Calamaria linnei, II. Boie, Var. Schlegel. 



Syn. — Calamaria reticulata, Boie, MS. ? 



Changulia albiventer, Gray : 111. Ind. Zool. PI. — Fig. 6 — 9.* 

 Calamaria linnei, Var Schlegel. 



Adult. Head brown, minutely dotted with black, lips and cheeks 

 pale gamboge ; trunk reddish brown, on each side with two vermillion 

 longitudinal bands with black serrated edges ; beneath carmine with 

 a black serrated line on each side ; subcaudal scutella with a central 

 black, zig-zag line ; all the colours strongly iridescent ; eyes black, 

 tongue vermilion. 



Young. Like the adult, but with a broad black nuchal band, edged 



* Referred by M. Schlegel to C. lumbricoideu, but the characteristic distribution of 

 the colours is that of the present Var. The figure however is not good, and not colour- 

 ed from life. 



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