A Malay-English dictionary,

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ADDENDUM B.
MALAY NAMES OF SNAKES (DINDINGS).

Ular bakat: a green viperine snake (lachesis) with dark- I
green markings, lachesis purpureomaculatus. Also u. I
kapak bakau.
U. belerang: a fabulous red sea-snake, described as
being so venomous that a bite from it on the rudder
of a boat will suffice to kill the crew.
U. chintamani: a fabulous gold-yellow snake, the finding
of which betokens success in love.
U. chintamani gajah: a name given to lachesis wagleri
(variety D.) when large and exceptionally light in
coloration.
U. kapak: a generic name given to viperine snakes;
lachesis.
U. kapak bakau: see u. bakau.
U. kapak rimba: lachesis wagleri (variety D.), as usually
met with. Cf. u. chintamani gajah.
U. katamt tebu, or it. katang tebu: the banded karait,
bungarus fasciatits.
U. keatla duwa: a name given to a number of snakes, the
tails of which resemble their heads. The commonest
kind is cylindrophis rufus.
U. kunyet: a name given to the common tree-snake,
dryophis prasinus, when yellow in tint. Cf. it. puchok.
U. kunyet teris: see it. tedong selar kunyet terus.
U. lidi: dendrophis pictus.
U. matahari: see it. tedong natahari.
U. mengenyior: chrysopelea ornata.
U. puchok: the common green tree-snake, dryophis
prasinus. Cf. u. kunyet.
U. punti: a large black snake with white banded markings,
dipsadomorphus dendrophilus. Also u. tiyong.
U. rumnah: a small thick black snake, hypsirhina plumnbea.
U. sampah: a very small snake, psammodynastes pictus.
U. sawan: a generic name given to large non-venomous
snakes, especially pythons.
U. sawa batu: the common python, python reticulatus,
when living on rocky soil.
U. sawa burong: dipsadomorphus cynodon.
U. sawa chindai: the reticulate python when its coloration is very brilliant.

U. sawa lekir: a name often given to the young reticulate
python, but more correctly to the snake coluber inelaintrus from the peculiar whitish patches on its skin.
U. sawa rendan: the reticulate python, when aquatic in
its habits.
U. sawa tekukor: a name given to coluber melanurus.
U. selenseng: a long greenish-yellow non-venomous snake,
a colour-variety of coluber oxycephalus.
U7. seliimpat: a generic name given to true sea-snakes
from the peculiar appearance of their tails, especially
(it. selimpat betul) to the common large sea-snake,
enhydris hardwickii.
U. selimpat katang tabu: a banded true sea-snake, chlersydrus
goranulatus.
U. selimpat sungai: a small true sea-snake without
distinctive markings, enhydrina valakadyen.
U. tahi kerbau: coluber radiatus.
U. tanah: = u. rumah.
U. tedong: a generic name given to a number of snakes
believed (usually with truth) to be very venomous.
U. tedong liyar: a long black (white-bellied) non-venomous snake resembling the black cobra at first sight;
zamenis korros. Also u. tcdong tikus.
U. tedong matahari: the small venomous snake doliophis
bivirgatus. The name, however, is often given to a
comparatively large non-venomous snake, coluber
oxycephalus, owing to a certain occasional resemblance
in the tints of the body and in the colour of the tail.
U. tWdong selar: the hamadryad or king cobra, naia
bungarus.
U. tedong selar kunyet terus: the hamadryad when not
uniformly coloured but with peculiar markings along
the posterior portion of the body. These markings
seem to occur in specimens seven or eight feet long
and not in the full-sized hamadryad of over ten feet.
U. tedong sendok: the common black cobra, naia tripiudians.
U. tedong tikus: see i. tedong liyar.
U. tedong usat: simotes octolineatus.
U. tiyong: a name given (Riau, Johor?) to the snake
dipsadomorphus dendrophilus; = (Kedah) u. punti.

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