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Show 664 MP. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [May 16, 117. MACROPISTHODON FLAYICEPS (D. & B.). Tropidonotus leucomelas, Giinth. Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 271, pl. xxii. fig. I. Macropisthodon fiaviceps, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 266. The type of T. leucomelas is supposed to be from Penang. Mr. Wray has obtained this species in Perak. Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 118. MACROPISTHODON RHODOMELAS (Boie). Macropisthodon rhodomelas, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 266. This snake is frequently found in Singapore (cf. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 880), and has been recently recorded from Pahang (R. Hanitsch, Eep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 9). Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes (a specimen in the Raffles Museum is said to be from Macassar). 119. HELICOPS SCHISTOSUS (Daud.). Tropidonotus schistosus, Cantor, p. 91. Atretium schistosum, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 273. Helicops schistosus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 274. Hah. Malay Peninsula (Cantor), Ceylon, Southern India, Bengal.. Yunnan, Burma. 120. LYCODON AULICUS (L.). Lycodon aulicus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 352. Siamese. " Ngu bow-peek-kaao," also " Ngu ngaukh." This little snake, which not unfrequently is found in inhabited houses, is recorded from Penang, Singapore, and the Malay Peninsula. The British Museum Catalogue mentions specimens from Siam, presented by Mr. Newman, and from Cambodia, collected by M. Mouhot. Personally I have obtained this species from Penang (sea-level and at 2200 ft. elevation), from Alor Star, Kedah, and from Bangkok and Chantaboon; all these were of Var. D. Description. In eleven Siamese and Malay individuals the number of ventral shields varied from 192 to 207, and the subcaudals from 61 to 75. In one specimen from Penang the 4th and 5th subcaudals were single. Colour (in life).-Var. D. Above brown, with fine, narrow, yellow reticulations; a triangular yellow blotch on each side of the occiput, confluent in the centre, forming a collar; labials yellow, all of them or only the anterior ones spotted with brown. Below uniform white or pale yellow. Size. A Bangkok specimen measured 540 mm. in total length. Hab. Ceylon, India, Himalayas, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Cochinchina, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Sumba, Savu, Ombaai, Flores, Timor, Celebes, Philippines, Mascarene Islands (introduced). N.B.-I know no instance of Lycodon jara occurring in Siam * |