<p>Morphological characters of the specimen from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, agreed with the descriptions of Smith (1943) and Schulz (2010): SVL 506 mm, TaL 127 mm (n = 1). Body cylindrical; head moderately distinct from neck; eye large, pupil round; rostral as broad as high, visible from above; internasals broad larger than long; prefrontal about two-thirds of frontal; parietals as long as wide; nasal divided; loreal 1/1; preoculars 2/2; postoculars 3/3, bordering anterior temporals; anterior temporals 1/1; posterior temporals 2/2; supralabials 9/9, fifth and sixth touching the eye, eighth-largest; infralabials 12/12, first to sixth bordering chin shields; dorsal scale rows 25–25–21, keeled from the eighth row, laterally smooth; ventrals 275; cloacal scale divided; subcaudals 112, paired.</p><p>Colouration in preservative. Dorsal surface of head and body brownish above, the head and neck uniform, with a black stripe on each side of the head, broadest behind the eye; anterior part of the back with a vertebral series of large black butterfly-shaped spots and smaller diamond-shaped ones on lateral; posterior part of back with a pale grey vertebral stripe, 3 or 4 scales wide and a broad black stripe on each side, 6 scales wide; this interrupted by light spots or transverse bars as far as the vent; ventral yellowish, with black spots in the outer margins. Tail black with four light stripes extending along each of the lateral, vertebral and ventral (Fig. 3).</p>
Sumber: New records and an updated list of reptiles from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam