1847.] Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 923 



ARBQRIAL. 

 Gen. Dipsas, Lanrenti. 

 Head large, broad, depressed, cordate, covered with shields ; neck 

 narrow, trunk much narrower than the head, compressed, very long, 

 beneath covered with scuta ; tail cylindrical, imbricate. 



Dipsas dendrophila, Reinwardt. 



Syn. — Scheuchzer, 662, Fig. 11. (Col. variabilis, apud Merrem.) 

 Dipsas dendrophila, apud Wagler. 



Dipsas dendrophila, Wagler, apud Horsfield : Life of Raffles. 

 Dipsas dendrophila, apud Schlegel. 



Head, back and sides intense black with steel-blue, lilac, and green 

 reflections ; beneath pale black, iridescent ; body and tail with numer- 

 ous bright yellow transversal bands, widened below, sometimes joined 

 on the back or abdomen, occasionally reduced to irregular spots ; 

 throat and lips bright yellow, labials with black edges. Pupil ellipti- 

 cal, vertical ; iris and tongue black. 



Scuta 218 to 225, Scutella 100 to 112. 



Habit. — Pinang, Singapore, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Java, Celebes. 



It inhabits the Malayan hills and valleys, but apparently in no 

 great numbers. The largest individual measured : 



Length of the head, ft. If inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 3 3| 



Ditto ditto tail, I 



4 ft. 5f inch. 

 Greatest circumference of the trunk, 4 inch. 



Dipsas multimaculata, Schlegel. 



Syn. — Scheuchzer, 657, Fig. 2. 

 Russell, II. PI. 23. 

 Dipsas multimaculata, Schlegel 



Ground-colour, above light greenish grey, minutely spotted ami 

 marbled with brown ; on the head an angular, backwards diverging 

 black mark with whitish edges ; a black oblique line from behind the 

 eyes to the hind head, where it joins a lozenge-shaped black spot with 

 whitish edges ; along the back and tail a series of large, irregularly 

 oval, black spots with whitish edges, arranged in close quincunx series 



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