FASCICULI MALATENSES 
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broader than long, shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal as long as broad, as 
long as the distance from the end of the snout, shorter than parietals ; loreal 
tapezoid, longer than deep ; one praeocular, in contact with the frontal ; two 
postoculars, in contact with the frontal ; temporals 24-3; eight upper labials, 
third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact 
Fig. 3. Head of Dipsadomorphus paUidus. Two-thirds natural size. 
with the anterior chin-shields, which are smaller than the posterior. Scales in 
twenty-one rows, vertebral row strongly enlarged. Ventrals, 256 mm. ; anal, 
entire ; subcaudals, 1 54 mm. Head and neck purplish-grey above, fading into 
a pale brown on the body ; no spots or markings of any kind ; upper lip 
and lower parts yellowish-white ; belly and tail speckled with grey. Total 
length, 1,580 mm. ; tail, 420 mm. 
A single female specimen from Jalor. 
69. Psammodynastes pulverulentus, Boie. 
Jalor. 
70. Dryophis prasinus, Boie. 
Patani, Bukit Besar, and Jalor. 
‘ Common throughout the Patani States, equally so in virgin jungle 
at 3,000 feet, and in the open casuarina woods on Cape Patani. It 
