The flower-tailed oblique scale snake mainly preys on frogs. Living with in mountain forests,non-toxic. Distributed inTaiwan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Henan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou.

The back of the body is dark brown, and there are about 22 almost diamond-shaped yellow-brown stripes in the center of the body, each about 4 The horizontal width of the row of scales, the length of 1-2 rows of scales, the yellow-brown spots merge at the back of the body to form a yellow-brown central longitudinal line until the caudal end, with black longitudinal bands on both sides of the central longitudinal line, and two abdominal scales. There are black markings on the sides. There is a ^-shaped black spot on the head, the top starts from the back edge of the frontal scale, the two sides extend behind the corner of the mouth, and the outer edge is khaki. There is a black band from the back of the eyes to the corner of the mouth, and an arrow-shaped black spot on the neck, the tip reaching the rear edge of the top scale.