. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Table 4. A new Dendrelaphis from Myanmar Diagnostic differences between Dendrelaphis walli sp. n. and Dendrelaphis hiloreatus Wall, 1908. 23 Dendrelaphis walli n. sp. (n=7) Dendrelaphis biloreatus (n=7) Ventrals 211(203-213) 192 (190-199) Anterior temporals usually 2 (92% of specimens) usually 1 (86% of specimens) anal shield entire divided Description of the holotype. Adult female; body very slender; snout-vent length cm; tail-length cm;head distinct from neck; head-length mm; snout- width mm; pupil round; eye-diameter mm; distance e
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Table 4. A new Dendrelaphis from Myanmar Diagnostic differences between Dendrelaphis walli sp. n. and Dendrelaphis hiloreatus Wall, 1908. 23 Dendrelaphis walli n. sp. (n=7) Dendrelaphis biloreatus (n=7) Ventrals 211(203-213) 192 (190-199) Anterior temporals usually 2 (92% of specimens) usually 1 (86% of specimens) anal shield entire divided Description of the holotype. Adult female; body very slender; snout-vent length cm; tail-length cm;head distinct from neck; head-length mm; snout- width mm; pupil round; eye-diameter mm; distance eye-nostril mm; 213 ventrals; 145 subcaudals; dorsal scales in 13-13-11 rows; 8 supralabials, 4th and 5th bor- der the eye; 10 infralabials, infralabials 1-5 touch the first chinshield, infralabials 5 and 6 touch the second chin- shield; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; 1 loreal; temporal for- mula 2:2:2:1:2 (L), 2:1:2:2 (R); first sublabial touches in- fralabials 6 and 7; vertebrals strongly enlarged, with straight posterior margin, width of the vertebral scale at the position of the middle ventral scale mm; anal en- tire; parietal scales bordered posteriorly by 4 scales; ground color brownish; supralabials and throat white; some black spots on supralabials 2—4, the loreal and the preocular; a black postocular stripe starts behind the eye, covers the majority of the temporal region, and extends onto the neck where it breaks up into narrow, black oblique bars which fade away further posteriorly; a faint ventro- lateral line is present, covering the first dorsal row and lower half of the second dorsal row; the ventrolateral line is not bordered by black lines; belly Fig. 3. Currently known distribution of D. biloreatus (white b) and D. walli sp. n. (black W). Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 17-24 Variation. Table 3 provides data regarding the types of D. walli sp. n. Comparison with congeneric species. Dendrelaphis wal- li sp. n. differs from all congeners, except
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