DENDROPHIS (PHILOTHAMNUS*) SEMI VARIEGATA.— Smith. 
Reptilia. Plate LIX. Adult. 
D. superne 
subolivacea, antice fasciolis nigris, undatis, variegatis ; inferne subflava viridi-tincta ; corporis 
squamis in lineis obliquis plus minus imbricatis dispositis. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head and the first third of the 
back and sides intermediate between bluish green and grass-green, the 
remainder of the back and sides, and the upper and lateral parts of the tail 
intermediate between oil-green and wax-yellow, the first third of the back 
thinly variegated with narrow, waved, ill-defined, liver-brown bars. The 
edges of the lower jaw, and the under surface of the head and body dull 
yellow, with a bluish green tint shining through it, the under surface of the 
tail with a predominance of the latter colour. Eyes deep reddish biown, 
the pupils edged with a narrow ring of a silvery colour. 
Form, &c. — Figure rather slender, body slightly thickest at its middle ; tail 
long, tapered, and pointed ; head rather elongated and subovate, its sides per- 
pendicular and the nose moderately wide and slightly arched ; the temples 
rather prominent, and the hind-head considerably wider than the neck ; 
frontal plate broad at the base, and much contracted towards the point, the 
latter triangular, and inserted between the occipital plates ; nasal plate 
square, its hinder edge crescentic, the concavity forwards; naso-frenal laigei 
than the nasal, and forms the hinder boundary of the nostril ; frenal plate 
narrow, its hinder edge oblique, the slope from above downwards and back- 
wards. Pre-ocular plate with the anterior edge inferiorly sloped backwaids to 
conform to the frenal plate ; post ocular plates, two, small and quadrangulai , 
plates of temples, large, and in two rows Plates of upper lip, nine, exclusive 
of rostral, the first five quadrangular, and much the smallest ; the sixth has an 
elbow extending upwards behind the eye. Plates of the lower bp, not in- 
cluding the mental plate, eleven, they increase in size to the sixth, which is much 
the largest, and from that decrease to the angle of the mouth. The scales of 
* Ch Suborn Form slender. Hind-head broader than the neck. Teeth of maxilla small, the last 
rather largest not grooved. Nostrils formed by nasal and naso-frenal plates. Frenal plate single. 
Pupil circular. Scales of body arranged in oblique rows, the hinder edge of each row overlapping more 
or less of the row behind it. Abdominal plates angular, or keeled towards each extremity. 
