FISHES, BATBACHIANS AND KKPTILES. 



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22. DBNDROPHIS PICTUS, Gm. 



Talmn River. 



An anomalous specimen with the loreal fused with t lie praefrontals 

 and fourth and fifth labials entering the eve on the left Bide. 



28. PSAMMODYNASTES PULVERULENTUS, Boib. 

 Gunong Tahan, 5,000-5,800 ft. 



[This was the only Snake met with above the jungle zone on the 

 mountain and was very common. All the natives, Malays and Dyaks 

 alike, were very afraid of it, and insisted that it was most venomous 

 and that its bite was far worse than thai of the Pit-vipers (Lachcsis), 

 to some species of which it l)ears a faint resemblance. — H. C. K. 



21. ORYOPHTS prasixis. BOIK. 



Koala Tckn, SOU ft. 



2.-,. BUNGARUS PLAVICEPS, Ri:i\ii. 



At Kuala Teku a dead specimen of this Snake was observed, too 

 decomposed to be preserved. It was ft. 10 in. long, blackish-brown 

 above, pinkish-red beneath, head and last ten inches of tail entirely 

 pinkish-red. — H. C. P. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 

 Plate IV., Fig. 1. Ixalus brevipes, Blgr., sp. nov. (p. 68) 

 Fi^-s. 2. 'In. Draco cyanolaemus, Blgr., sp. nor. (p. 64) 

 3, 3a. Lygosoma cophias, Blgr., sp. nov. < p. <',7) 

 Plate V., Gonyocephalus robinsonii, Blur.. Bp. nov. (p. (*>•")) 



