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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 659 Singapore), dirty brown and white in rings, a very sluggish beast." In the Kuala Lumpor Museum there is a small specimen, caught (in the act of swallowing a fish) at sea in the Straits of Malacca between Kiang and Singapore. In the Siamese Museum there is a large stuffed specimen said to be from Bangkok. Hab. Ceylon, Madras, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines, New Guinea. 104. XENODERMUS JAVANICUS Reinh. Xenodermus javanicus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 175. Recorded from Penang (F. Mfiller, Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, 1887, p. 268). Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java. > Subfamily COLUBRINCE. 105. POLYODONTOPHIS GEMINATUS (Boie). Herpetodryas prionotus, Cantor, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 52. Polyodontophis geminatus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 185. Recorded from Malacca and Singapore (P. Z. S. 1896, p. 879). Hab. Siam (Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 185), Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Lombok. 106. POLYODONTOPHIS SAGITTARIUS (Cant.). Calamaria sagittaria, Cantor, p. 64. Polyodontophis Sagittarius, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 187. Cantor mentions one specimen from the Malay Peninsula. Hab. West Himalayas, Bengal, Assam, Malay Peninsula. 107. XENOCHROPHIS CERASOGASTER (Cant.). Tropidonotus cerasogaster, Cantor, p. 92. Xenochrophis cerasogaster, Blgr. Cat, Snakes, i. p. 191. Cantor mentions one specimen from the Province Wellesley. Hab. Bengal, Assam, Khasi Hills, Malay Peninsula. 108. PRYMNOMIODON CHALCEUS Cope. Hab. Siam (Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 192). 109. TROPIDONOTUS TRIANGULIGERUS Boie. Tropidonotus trianguligerus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 224. Recorded from Penang and Singapore (vide P. Z. S. 1896, p. 879). I have seen a specimen from Penang Hill, 2400 ft., and obtained another near the foot of Gunong Pulai, Johore, 790 mm. in length. |