About Pareas boulengeri (Angel, 1920)
Pareas boulengeri has a very light brown upper body with minimal countershading. A narrow, dark brown, intermittently broken line runs from the posterior edge of the eye to the corner of the mouth. Two wider, frequently breaking dorsal lines start at the subocular scale, run along the side of the parietal scales toward the head and neck, where they lose definition. These lines fade into irregular dots that may broaden across the sides, and disappear toward the latter half of the body. These dots are tightly grouped on the cephalic scales. Spots on juvenile Pareas boulengeri are much clearer. This species lays 5 to 7 eggs per clutch; based on observations of other species in its genus, the eggs likely require roughly 6.5 weeks of incubation before hatching. Pareas boulengeri is endemic to China. It is widespread within China but rare, due to its low population density, and its range experiences very little fragmentation. Pareas boulengeri is mostly arboreal, and prefers montane forests at elevations between 313 and 1,360 metres above sea level.
