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Show 1899.1 REPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 693 Sandakan, British North Borneo, given m e by Mr. G. A. Altman of that town, belonging to var. B, measured 1811 m m . (or 5 feet 11 inches). Hab. Burma, Cochinchina, Lower Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Borneo. 209. DOLIOPHIS INTESTINALIS (Laur.) Doliophis intestinalis, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 401. Of the Malay poisonous snakes this is perhaps the most frequently met with. I have come across it both in bright daylight and after dark, crawling slowly about; it is easily caught. What the effect of its poison on a man would be is, I believe, quite unknown ; but from its small mouth and want of activity it can hardly be looked on as a dangerous species. Cantor found that fowls bitten by this snake died from within an hour and twenty minutes to upwards of three hours. " The serpents, which all had forcibly to be made to inflict the wounds, shortly afterwards expired, apparently from the violence to which they had been subjected." Localities. Var. B, annectens : Pahang (Raffles Museum) ; Singapore (Ridley). Var. C, lineata: Penang Hills (Cantor, Van Sommeren, & S.S.F.); Province Wellesley (S.S.F.); Taiping, Perak (Perak Museum) ; Pangkor, Dindings (Perak Museum); Kuala Lumpor, Selangor (S.S.F.) ; Malacca (Cantor) ; Singapore (Cantor & S.S.F.). Var. D, trilineatus : Province Wellesley (S.S.F.). Colour (in life). Var. C : Above rich reddish or purplish brown, with a narrow scarlet black-edged vertebral line; along each side a pale yellow line, above broadly edged with black, below edged with black spots on a somewhat vandyked dark-brown line. Underneath pale yellow, with black cross-bars generally about half the width of the yellow interspaces. Upper surface of head may be dull vermilion. Labials yellow, spotted with black. Under surface of tail bright coral-red, with three black cross-bars. Size. The largest specimens I obtained in 1898 were only about 465 m m . in length. Hab. Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Borneo, Celebes. Family AMBLYCEPHALIDCE. 210. HAPLOPELTURA BOA (Boie). Dipsas boa, Cantor, p. 78, pl. xl. fig. 3. Haplopeltura boa, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 439. Cantor obtained two individuals from the Penang Hills, and recently Mr. A. G. B. van Sommeren found two at the same time in holes in the ground on Government Hill, Penang, at 2500 feet elevation. The snakes of this family are apparently very rare in he Straits Settlements; with the above exceptions, they are not PROC ZOOL. Soc-1899, No, XLV. 45 |