LYCODON GEOMETRICUS.— Schlegel. 
Reptilia. — Plate XXII. Adult and Young. 
L. supra subcastaneus ; infra pallide flavus, latere duabus lineis longitudinalibus antice notato , capite 
supra lined flava marginata, et linea colons similis inter oculum et oris angulum ; capite depresso ; 
corpore subcylindraceo ; squamis antice liexagonis elongatis, postice brevibus subhexagoms. 
Longitddo a naso ad anunr 26 unc. ; caudffi 6 unc. 6 lin. 
Lvcodon Geometricus, Physionomie des Serpens, par Schlegel, page 111. 
Colour. — Back and upper portion of sides intermediate between yellowish 
brown and umber-brown, the colour of the sides being separated from that of 
the back by a narrow cream-yellow band, which commences near the hind 
head and is lost before it reaches the tail. Below the brown of the side, 
w r hich exhibits the appearance of a longitudinal stripe, there is a second 
cream-coloured band about the width of the first, but neither so distinctly 
defined nor so lengthened, rarely reaching to the middle of the body. Behind, 
where this second line does not exist, the lower edge of the brown gradually 
fades into a light- brownish purple-red. Lower portion of sides and under 
parts straw-yellow. Besides the yellow bands already mentioned there is 
one of a brighter tint edging the lateral and anterior parts of the upper sur- 
face of the head, and another extending between the outer corner of the eye 
and the angle of the mouth ; there are also some more or less vertical 
lines of the same colour on the upper lip. 
Young. 
The ground colour sienna-yellow glossed with purplish red, and the back 
and the sides towards the head are freely variegated with several rows of spots 
of a brownish red colour. Line edging the upper surface of the head, and 
one between the eye and the angle of the mouth bright yellow, the former is 
connected with its fellow of the opposite side by a narrow transverse yellow 
line ; upper and under lips pale yellow vertically barred with brown. Under 
parts pale straw-yellow. 
