SNAKES FROM THE KHASl HILLS, ASSAM. 



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19 to 17 is occasioned by a confluence of the 3rd and 4th rows above 

 the ventrals. 



Fig.l 



Troftidonolub kAasiens's 

 (x%) 



Anomalies. — Eight supralabials in three specimens, the 3rd, 4th 

 and 5th touching the eye on both sides in one, the 4th and 5th only 

 on the left side in two examples. 



Breeding. — 2 young measuring 7| and 7f inches were obtained in 

 October. The secretion of the anal glands is custardlike in colour 

 and consistency. All specimens are blackish-brown (not pale-brown 

 as stated by Boulenger in his Catalogue, Vol. I., p. 223) dorsally, with 

 obscure black spots showing a tendency to transverse distribution. 

 A more or less distinct (usually obscure) nut-brown or rufous series 

 of dorsal spots on the 6th row above the ventrals, much as in hima- 

 layanus. The upper labials white (not yellow), finely speckled 

 with black especially about the sutures. A yellow streak from above 

 gape to the sides of the neck. Underparts white (not yellow), with 

 a regular row of conspicuous black, lateral, ventral spots, often more 

 or less confluent. 



1 captured one at dark whilst it was trying to cross the road. It 

 was very active, and gave me some trouble, partly owing to my 

 caution in dealing with a snake it was too dark to recognise. 



Tropidonotus piscator. 



I obtained 45 examples, a large number of which were young of 

 this year. All the specimens were olive-green, or olive-brown with 

 black, blackish, or obscure quincuncial spots of various size, and thus 

 conformed to the varieties, punctatus, quiucunciatus, and obscurus, re- 

 ferred to in my paper on this species in an earlier issue of this Journal 



