. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS 87 The hemipenis is forked and papillate. Scale rows . • 13 Ventrals . 172 +1 Subcaudals . 24 Supralabials . 6 (3-4) Temporals . O+I Range: Southern Thailand to Java, Borneo and Leyte (Inger 1965). Lepturophis borneensis Boulenger Lepturophis borneensis Boulenger 1900 : 183. Material: BM (i<?). Remarks : The G. Benom individual appears to constitute the first record of the occurrence of Lepturophis in the Malayan Peninsula. Previously this monotypic genus was known only from the type obtained in Sarawak an
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS 87 The hemipenis is forked and papillate. Scale rows . • 13 Ventrals . 172 +1 Subcaudals . 24 Supralabials . 6 (3-4) Temporals . O+I Range: Southern Thailand to Java, Borneo and Leyte (Inger 1965). Lepturophis borneensis Boulenger Lepturophis borneensis Boulenger 1900 : 183. Material: BM (i<?). Remarks : The G. Benom individual appears to constitute the first record of the occurrence of Lepturophis in the Malayan Peninsula. Previously this monotypic genus was known only from the type obtained in Sarawak and from a subsequent series of twelve in the Field Museum Chicago, from Sabah and Fig. 2. Lepturophis borneensis (BM. ). Boulenger (1900a) likened the teeth of Lepturophis to those of Lycodon and gave the formula of the type specimen as 6+6- The type specimen has not been examined by me; it is probably in the Kuching museum, Sarawak, but con- firmation has not been received. The G. Benom example has been compared with the Field Museum series assigned to Lepturophis which in scale counts and in denti- tion agree favourably with the G. Benom specimen. See table A, p. 47. The only resemblance between the teeth of Lycodon and those specimens examined here is in the large fang-like anterior maxiUary tooth followed by a diastema then a series of small teeth. In the G. Benom individual the maxillary formula is 6 + 6 + 3, the first six gradually increasing in size, the second group of six being small and of more or less equal size while the posterior group are again fang-like. The left maxilla of FMNH 158650 which was dissected out appears to have a formula of 6 -|- 3 +3 but FMNH 148895-6 have series of six small teeth in the centre of the maxillae. These enlarged. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the
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