The adult red-striped egg snake is about 1m long. The back of the head and body is tan or light red, and there are 3 ∧-shaped tan or orange-yellow markings on the back of the head; the front of the body has 4 brown-black longitudinal stripes connected by red-brown dots with brown-black edges, but There are no reddish-brown spots on the tail, and there are 3 light-colored longitudinal stripes alternately with the 4 longitudinal stripes, the middle one is reddish-brown, and the two sides are gray-brown.

The ventral neck and front of the body of the red-striped snake The head is goose-yellow, and the back is light orange or orange-red, densely dotted with small black and yellow checkerboard spots, which are very eye-catching.