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ZOOLOGISCHE MEDEDEELINGEN — DEEL VI. 



Sinabang 

 Lasikin 

 Djabur Fulu 

 Labuan Badjau 

 Sibigo 



30. VIII. 1913. 

 10. IX. 1913. 



VIL 1913. 2 spec 



IV. 1913. 1 spec. 



V. 1913. 1 spec. 



VI. 1913. 1 spec. 



2 spec. 



1 spec. 



Nom. indig. in the district Tapah: Sawah-n-ètem, the same name as 

 for Python reticulatus. 



A common snake. The red, black-edged vertebral band only visible 

 in young specimens. Adults are brownish-black with some black spots on 

 each side anteriorly. 



24. Lycodon subcinctus Boie. 

 Sinabang II. 1913. 1 spec. 



25. Calamaria elegans de Rooij. 

 Rept. Indo-Austr. Arch. II 1917, pag. 158; fig. 64. 

 Ajer Dingin VII. 1913. 1 spec. 



(Ma 



Diameter of the eye equals its distance from the mouth ; rostral more 

 broad than deep ; frontal more long than broad, twice as broad as a 

 supraocular, shorter than the parietals; one prae- and one postocular; five 

 upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye; mental in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields; both pairs of chin-shields in contact. Scales in 

 13 rows; ventrals 133; anal entire; subcaudals 27. Tail ending in a point. 



Brown above, with black spots in longitudinal series; outer row of 

 scales with white spots, on the neck and anterior part of body six ver- 

 tical white spots on each side. Lower surface yellow, each shield with a 

 small brown spot on the outer ends; a dark median line along the tail. 

 Length of head and body 167 mm.; tail 26 mm. 



Type-specimen in the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. 



