Distribution. B u rm a , Cochinchina, Malacca, Nias, Sumatra.
Borneo, Java.
48. D o l i o p h i s i n t e s t i n a l i s (Laur.).
Blgr. Cat. Snakes III p. 401.
Lolowua, 3 specimens.
Nias, 1 specimen.
The four animals belong to the variety C. l i n e a t a Gray.
Distribution. Burma, Malacca, Nias, Sumatra, Banka, Java,
Borneo, Celebes.
49. H a p l o p e l t u r a b o a (Boie).
Blgr. Cat. Snakes III p. 439.
Lolowua, 2 specimens.
Distribution. Malacca, Nias, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines,
Moluccas?.
50. L a c h e s i s s u m a t r a n u s (Baffles).
Blgr. Cat. Snakes III p. 557.
Lolowua, 6 specimens.
Western-Nias, 2 specimens.
Nias, 6 specimens.
Bright green, bluish-green or brownish-green above; scales
black-edged. No black cross-bands, no white spots on the
back. Most of them have a light streak on each side, along
the outer row of scales. Tail prehensile, with red spots.
Distribution. Malacca, Nias, Sipora, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines.
The greater part of the reptile-fauna of Nias is also found
in Sumatra. Only one gecko, an ag amo id , and a scincoid
lizard are indigenous in Nias, whereas they have not been
recorded from Sumatra. Both liz a rd s : G o n a t o d e s k a n d i a n u s
Kel. and L y g o s o m a r e l i c t u m Vine, are restricted in their
distribution, the former living in Southern In d ia , Ceylon and
the islands west of Sumatra; the latter on those only. The
agamoid lizard H a r p e s a u r u s e n s i c a u d a Wern. has recently
been described by W e rn e r, in Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg
XXX 1913, p. 8 from a single male specimen in the Hamburg
Museum, collected in Nias. Its nearest allies, the two other
species of H a r p e s a u r u s , have been collected in Java (H . t r i c i n c t u s
A. Dum) and in Sumatra ( H . b e c c a r i i Doria). The genus
H a r p e s a u r u s is not only very restricted in its distribution,
but also very ra re in the islands, where it lives: the Javan
form not being found again after 1856, in which year it was
described by A. Dumeril J); the Sumatran form only o n c e 2)
after 1888, then being described by Doria 3).
Among the snakes there are two species, that have not
been recorded from Sumatra: C a l a m a r i a l u m b r i c o i d e a Boie
and H a p l o p e l t u r a b o a Boie. The latter species is very probably
a Sumatran form, as it is found in Malacca, Nias, Billiton,
Java and Borneo 4).
C a l a m a r i a l u m b r i c o i d e a is only known from Java and
Celebes.
1) Arch. Mus. VIII 1856, p. 571.
2) Despax, Bull. Mus. d’Hist. natur. no. 4 1912, p. 3.
3) Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) VI 1888, p. 646, Tav. VIII fig. 2.
4) This is proved to be true; I had overlooked a publication of
E. Lampe in Jahrb. Nassau. Ver. 55, 1902, which author mentions
H a p l o p e l t u r a b o a from Peudawa in S. Atjeh, Sumatra.