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14. Coluber taeniurus (Cope). 



One specimen from Muara Labu, Padang Highlands, VIII, 1914. 



Scales in 25 rows, dorsals feebly keeled; ventrals 282 with a lateral 

 angle, anal divided, subcaudals 109/109. Rostral nearly twice as broad 

 as high, visible from above ; praefrontals nearly twice as long as the. 

 internasals; frontal more long than broad, as long as praefrontals and 

 internasals together ; loreal more than twice as long as high. A large 

 praeocular touching the frontal ; a small subocular ; 2 postoculars ; tem- 

 porals 2 + 3 ; nine upperlabials, 5th and 6th entering the eye. 



15. Lycodon subcinctits Boie. 



À half grown specimen from Sunga Penuh, Korintji, IX, 1915. 



Sc. 17. Ventrals 213, anal divided, subcaudals 81/81. 



An adult specimen from Fort de Koek, Padang Highlands, II, 1917. 



Sc. 17. Ventrals 212, anal divided, subcaudals 77/77. 



A young specimen from Fort de Koek, Padang Highlands, XII, 1917. 



Sc. 17. Ventrals 214, anal divided, subcaudals 81/81. 



16. Simotes octolineatus (Schneider). 



One specimen from the Gunung Talemau (700 M.) Ophir districts, 

 Padang Highlands, V, 1917. 



Sc. 17. Ventrals 171, anal entire, subcaudals 58/58. 



Our specimen has on the right side 2 + 2 temporals, but on the left 

 side the number is only 1+2, the first of these temporals on the left 

 side being in contact with the parietal, with the 2 postoculars, with the 

 5th supralabial and moreover with a very small triaDgular shield, (per- 

 haps the rest of a degenerated second anterior temporal), touching the 

 lower postocular shield and the 4th and 5th supralabial. The 5th supra- 

 labial shield is nearly as high as the 4th one. 



17. Simotes purpurascens (Schlegel). 



Two specimens from Balun (Muara Labu), Padang Highlands, VI, 1914. 

 Sc. 19. Ventrals 169, anal entire, subcaudals 52/52. 

 Sc. 19. Ventrals 168, anal entire, subcaudals 56/56. 



18. Simotes annulifer Boulenger var. annulata nov. var. 



One specimen from Balun (Muara Labu), Padang Highlands, VI, 1914. 



Sc. 15. Ventrals 145, anal entire, subcaudals 58/58. 



Nasal divided; rostral large very much visible from above, suture be- 



