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Show 884 MR. S. S. FLOWER ON THE REPTILES AND [DeC. 1, red; body and tail bronze-brown, each scale with a distinct black border; a black stripe on each side of the head passing through eye; upper lip, chin, and throat bright citron-yellow ; lower parts olive-green, black lines on the lateral keels and each subcaudal distinctly bordered wdth black. In the latter specimen there were no black lines on the lateral keels, or black borders to subcaudal scales. There is one specimen in the British Museum from Malacca. Hab. Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Java. 43. DENDRELAPHIS CAUDOLINEATUS, Gray. Leptophls caudalineatus, Cautor, p. 85. Dendrelaphis caudolineatus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 89. I obtained one specimen at Singapore; there is a specimen in the Baffles Museum labelled Pahang. Cantor mentions it from Penang Hill and Singapore; Stoliczka caught it at Penang, and also found it in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley; and there are two specimens in the British Museum from Singapore from Dr. Dennys, and one from Perak from Mr. Leech. Hab. Southern India, Mergui, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 44. SlMOTES PURPURASCENS, Schl. Xenodon purpurascns, Cantor, p. 67. Slmotes catenlfer, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 121, pl. xi. fig. 3. Slmotes denngsi, Blanford, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 218, pl. xxi. fig. 1. Slmotes purpurascens, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 218. Cantor met with this species on Penang Hill; Stoliczka found it in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley, and also records a specimen from Johore ; there is a specimen in the British Museum from Singapore ; and I obtained one specimen from Province Wellesley. Hab. South China, Cochinchina, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. 45. SIMOTES CYCLURUS, Cant. Simotes blcatenatus, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 114. Simotes cgclurus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 219. Stoliczka found this species in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley. Hab. Bengal, Assam, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Southern China, Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra. 46. SIMOTES OCTOLINEATUS, Schn. Simotes octolineatus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, ii. p. 224. I obtained a specimen near Taiping, Perak. Ventrals 158; subcaudals 47. The colour was-above very dark brown, beneath white, vertebral line scarlet and three white lines along each side. A specimen caught at Tanglin, Singapore (ventrals 183 ; subcaudals 61), was coloured yellow, with eight black longitudinal |