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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 681 usual, head foremost, but the tail and posterior part of the was for about a third of its length doubled back on the remainder. Colour (in life) of a specimen from Alor Star, Kedah :- Above intense shining black, below leaden blue-black. Fifty-five bright gamboge-yellow rings, much narrower than the black interspaces, and interrupted both above and below (except the last few on the tail). Labials and lower parts of head and neck gamboge; upper labials broadly, lower labials narrowly outlined in black. Size. Total length 2310 mm. (P.Z. S. 1896, p. 889). Hab. Lower Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Palawan, Philippines. 173. DIPSADOMORPHUS .TASPIDEUS (D. & B.). Dipsadomorphus jaspideus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 73. Hab. Malay Peninsula (Penang), Java, Borneo. 174. DIPSADOMORPHUS DRAPIEZII (Boie). Dipsadomorphus drapiezii, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 74; S. Flower, P.Z.S. 1896, p. 889. Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 175. DIPSADOMORPHUS CYNODON (Boie). Dipsadomorphus cynodon, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 77. Localities. Penang Hills, 2500 feet (Van Sommeren collection), Province Wellesley (Cantor), Gunong Keledang in Perak (" light coloured, with yellow throat," Ridley), Kuala Lumpor (Selangor Museum), Malacca (var. B, British Museum), Johore Bahru (Wilson), and Singapore (vars. A. & B, Dennys and Ridley). Habits. One was caught in Penang climbing in a coniferous tree. A specimen caught in Johore had swallowed a bird. Size. A Johore specimen measured in total length 2448 mm. (or 8 feet); two Selangor specimens were of about the same size. Hab. Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sipora (Mentawei Islands), Java ?, Bah, Borneo, Philippines. 176. PSAMMODYNASTES PULVERULENTUS (Boie). Psammodynastes pulverulentus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 172. M. Mouhot obtained a specimen in the Laos Mountains. There is one in the Siamese Museum labelled " Siam," and I have seen another from Chantaboon. Hab. Eastern Himalayas, Khasi and Assam Hills, Burma, Siam, Formosa, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Engaiio, Java, Lombok, Flores, Great Natuna, Borneo, Celebes, Balabac, Palawan, Philippines. 177. DRYOPHIS XANTHOZONA Boie. Dryophis xanthozona, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 180. Hab. Malay Peninsula (Penang), Java. |