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Show 1896.] BATRACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 883 Cantor obtained two specimens in the hills of Penang; Stoliczka found it in the collection he got from Penang and' Province Wellesley; and there is a specimen in the British Museum from Singapore. Hab. Eastern Himalayas, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Note.-Peters (Monatsb. Berl. Ac. 1859, p. 269) mentions a specimen from Malacca. 38. COLUBER MELANURUS, Schl. Coluber melanurus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 60. I obtained specimens from Province Wellesley and Singapore ; there are several specimens in the Raffles Museum, one being 1830 mm. in length. Stoliczka found it in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley; and there are specimens in the British Museum from Penang and Singapore. Hab. Southern China, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. 39. COLUBER RADIATUS, Schl. Coluber radiatus, Cantor, p. 73 ; Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 61. Cantor records this species from Penang, Singapore, and the Peninsula; Stoliczka found it in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley; and there is a specimen in the British Museum from Penang from Gen. Hardwicke's collection. Hab. Southern China, Eastern Himalayas, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Cochinchina, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. 40. GONYOPHIS MARGARITATUS, Ptrs. Gonyophis margarltatus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 71. Mr. Boulenger mentions a specimen from Singapore, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) viii. 1891, p. 290). Hab. Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 41. DENDROPHIS PICTUS, Boie. Leptophls pictus, Cantor, p. 82. Bendrophispictus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 78. I obtained this species at Kulim, Kedah, at Taiping, Perak, at Tanglin, Singapore, and from Linga Island. Cantor found it at Penang, and Stoliczka in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley. Hab. Eastern Himalayas, Bengal, hills of Southern India, Burma, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 42. DENDROPHIS FORMOSUS, Boie. Bendrophis formosus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 84. I obtained one specimen of this handsome Snake from Crangi, Singapore, and another from Province Wellesley; the latter 1372 mm. in length. The colours of the former when freshly killed were: top of head dark red-brown ; upper surface of neck |