DENDROPHIS (PHI LOTH AMNUS) ALBO-VARIATA. Smith. 
Reptilia. — Plate LXV. 
D. aupenie flavo viridis, i.toeS.vo b™„ea; do„i «P»‘ ; o„t, inter 
squamis brunneo-iiigra ; oculis subparvis. 
Longitudo e nasi apice ad basin caudee 21 unc. ; caudae 11 unc. 6 hn. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, the back the upper por- 
the sides/and the upper and lateral parts of the tad, ."termed* e 
between olive and oil-green ; in some the tail is sap-green ; the anterior par o 
the back and the head tinged brown. The scales of the first half of the body 
are narrowly edged, on one or both sides towards their base, with white, and 
in all conditions of the reptile, more or fewer of such short white lines are 
visible, forming irregular somewhat tranverse bands. The under parts are 
intermediate between sienna-yellow and yellowish brown. When the scales 
are absent the parts below appear bluish, with more or less of a puiple 
tint ; the inferior parts under the same circumstances are pale straw-ye on 
clouded lightly with blue. Skin between scales black. 
Form &c.— Figure rather slender ; body rather thickest at its middle ; tail 
long and tapered to afine point. Head narrow and rather elongated ; temples 
more prominent than the eyes ; nose subacute and rounded. Hind-head con- 
siderably wider than the neck. Rostral plate subtriangular, its apex, which is 
situated between the nasal plates, rounded; naso-rostral and fronto-nasa 
nlates somewhat five-sided, the former smallest, the inner and hinder side of 
he latter where it is in contact with the base of the frontal plate, oblique ; the 
frontal piate is six-sided, two of the sides form anteriorly an obtuse angle, 
d two nosteriorly one rather more acute ; the anterior extiemitv of the p a e 
U considerably wider than the posterior ; the lateral sides much the longest. 
Palpebral plates three-sided, the hinder side shortest and oblique, ex end.ng 
outwards and backwards. Occipital plates large irregularly six-sided and 
broadest anteriorly, the outer and mesial sides much the longest , i.eno-nas. 
