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Show 692 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [May 16, Localities. The Hamadryad is known to occur in the following places :-Hills of Penang, and Province "Wellesley (Cantor); Larut, Perak (Perak Museum); Kuala Lumpor (Selangor Museum and Van Sommeren coll.) ; Singapore (Dennys and Ridley), Siam (Brit. Mus. Cat., two specimens presented by W . H. Newman, Esq.). Size. Two skins of Hamadryads killed near Taiping, Perak, now in the possession of Lt.-Col. Froude Walker, C.M.G., measure respectively about 3760 and 4040 mm.; another specimen killed within four miles of Taiping, now in the Museum there, measures about 4500 mm. ; and one in the Kuala Lumpor Museum, which was killed in the neighbourhood, is said to be 15 feet long (4572 mm.). Hab. India, Burma, Southern China, Cochinchina, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines. 206. CALLOPHIS GRACILIS Gray. Elaps nigromaculatus, Cantor, p. 108, pl. xl. fig. 7. Callophis gracilis, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 396. I obtained one specimen in Singapore, October 1897. Hab. Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 207. CALLOPHIS MACULICEPS Giinth. Elaps melanurus (non ShawT), Cantor, p. 106, pl. xl. fig. 6. Callophis maculiceps, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 397. Hab. Burma, Cochinchina, Malay Peninsula (Prov. Wellesley). 208. DOLIOPHIS BIVIRGATUS (Boie). Doliophis bivirgatus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 400; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 895. Localities. Var. A, bivirgatus: Penang (Brit. Mus.). Var. B, tetratcenia: Singapore (Brit. Mus.). Var. Q,flaviceps: Penang Hills (Cantor, Van Sommeren, & S. S. F.); Penang Plains (Van Sommeren) ; Kulim, Kedah (Mitchell); Taiping, Perak (Perak Museum) ; Larut Hills, 4500 feet elevation (Perak Museum) ; Selangor (Raffles Museum); Malacca (Cantor); Johore Bahru (Wilson); Gunong Pulai, Johore (S. S. F.) ; Singapore (Brit. Mus., Girard, & S. S. F.). Colour (in life). Var. C : Head bright coral-red, slightly darker red on the occiput. Border of scales which enter eye black, making a narrow black ring round eye. Body, rich dark blue, highly iridescent, with on each side from neck to vent a line of light " Cambridge " blue, 2 scales wide; this light blue is separated from the red belly by a narrower line of dark blue. The lower surface is bright coral-red. The tail is bright coral-red, with a dorsal line of dark purplish blue, which commences the whole breadth of the tail and gets narrower towards the tip. Size. A specimen I caught on Gunong Pulai, Johore, belonging to Var. C, measured 1708 mm. in total length ; and one killed at |
