Liopeltis calamaria
Description
Description
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The following description is from [Malcolm Arthur Smith](/wiki/Malcolm_Arthur_Smith "Malcolm Arthur Smith")'s *[The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma](/wiki/The_Fauna_of_British_India%2C_Including_Ceylon_and_Burma "The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma")*. Reptilia and Batrachia volume, (page 184–185\).

Maxillary teeth 24–26; head not depressed and fairly distinct from the neck; snout not projecting, not twice as long as the eye; nostril very small and in a long undivided nasal, which is united with the loreal; normally 7 supralabials, rarely only 6, 3rd and 4th touching the eye; anterior genials a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 15:15:15 rows. Ventrals 126–142 in the male and 130–154 in the female. Caudals 68–78 in males and 53–72 in the females.

Hemipenis like that of *frenatus* in general construction, but the calyces smaller, more deeply scalloped, and packed so closely together that only the papillae are visible on the surface; the spines are shorter, thicker and more numerous; there is a fold.

Light brown, greyish\-brown or greenish, above, the scales usually edged with black, showing as more or less distinct longitudinal lines, the most conspicuous being one on each side of the vertebral region; they are separated from each other by five rows of scales. The area enclosed between them may be of a darker colour than that of the rest of the body; lower parts whitish (yellow in life); a series of dark spots on each side of the head, the remnants of the temporal stripes.

Total length of male 335 mm (tail 108 mm); females 390 mm long with the tail of 100 mm.


How is it colored above, and what color are the edges of the scales?