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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 673 Size. The largest specimen, a female from Bangkok, measured 330 mm. in total length. Hab. Siam, Cambodia, Cochinchina. 147. SIMOTES CRUENTATUS Giinther. Simotes cruentatus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 231, pl. x. fig. 1. Hab. Burma, Malay Peninsula (Stol. J. A. S.B. 1873, p. 121). 148. ABLABES TRICOLOR (Schleg.). Ablabes tricolor, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 281. Eound in Singapore by Mr. Ridley, and I got a specimen near the foot of Government Hill, Penang, in April 1898 ; it was a gentle snake, 468 mm. in total length. Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java. 149. ABLABES BALIODIRUS (Boie). Coronella baliodeira, Cantor, p. 66. Ablabes baliodirus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 283. Cantor obtained two specimens from the hills of Penang; he says " it is of fierce habits." Mr. Ridley informs me he caught an Ablabes baliodirus on the top of Bujang Malacca, in Perak, in Sept. or Oct. 1898. Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Natuna Islands, Borneo. 150. ABLABES LONGICAUDA Peters. Ablabes longicauda, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 284. Mr. C. Curtis, Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens, Penang, kindly gave me a specimen of this apparently rare snake, which he had found alive in a tin box in his house in the suburbs of Georgetown, Penang, during March or April ] 898. Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 151. MACROCALAMUS LATERALIS Giinther. Macrocalamus lateralis, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 199, pl. xviii. fig. D ; Blgr. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 327. This species was known from a single specimen (from General Hardwicke's East Indian collection) of doubtful locality. In April 1898 I was fortunate enough to get three individuals in the Larut Hills, Perak, at an elevation of 4400 feet. Description. These three specimens agree with the description of M. lateralis, except that they possess a loreal shield, larger than deep ; the type-specimen was apparently abnormal in having the loreals united with the praefrontals. The numbers of ventral and subcaudal shields were respectively 110 and 25, 110 and 27, 119 and 21. Colour. Above rich dark reddish brown. Below, head and neck yellow, remainder bright coral-red, with a black latero-ventral line, clearly defined from the under surface of the neck to the tip of the tail on each side. |