1847.] Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 917 



Shining blackish brown with steel blue reflections, and a varying 

 number of broad, distant bands, the lips, throat and a collar all white, 

 spotted with black ; beneath pale blackish brown, the anterior part of 

 the abdomen, the sharp lateral angle and the broad posterior margins 

 of the scuta and scutella whitish. Eyes black ; tongue flesh-coloured. 



Scutta 221, Scutella 74. 



Habit, — Pinang. 



Java, Bengal.* 

 On both sides of each jaw the anterior 4 or 5 teeth increase in size 

 and are longer than the rest. The fifth upper maxillary tooth is re- 

 moved from the preceding, which in addition to the general shape of 

 the head and the lax integuments, imparts to this serpent a striking 

 resemblance to the venomous genus Bungarus. In fierceness it resem- 

 bles the preceding species. The only individual observed was captur- 

 ed near the summit of the Great Hill of Pinang, where it had seized a 

 large Euprepis rufescens, (Shaw). It was of the following dimensions. 



Length of the head, ft. 1 inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 2 8f 



Ditto ditto tail, 7f 



3ft. 5 inch. 

 Circumference of the neck If, of the trunk 2-f inch. 



LYCODON EFFRiENIS, N. S. 



Shining bluish black above, with a few minute white spots, not 

 affecting the ground colour ; the throat, lips, and a band, bordering the 

 sides of the head from the muzzle to the hind head, buff coloured, 

 finely marbled with black ; beneath strongly iridescent, pale bluish 

 black, the scuta with whitish edges ; the body encircled by a number 

 (11,) of broad distant buff rings, above with indentated margins. Eyes 

 black, pupil elliptical ; tongue whitish. 



Scuta 228 ; Scutella 72. 



* According to M. Schlegei, who observes that a specimen has been forwarded from 

 Bengal by JYI. Duvaucel. No specimen exists in the Museum ol the Asiatic Society, 

 nor are the natives acquainted with the species. 



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