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accounts for a large number of the species of Tropidonoti in particular 

 that are brought in to one with imperfect tails. I was less for- 

 tunate with a second specimen encountered the same day as the 

 above. It disappeared like a flash down a steep incline, where I 

 could not follow it. 



Tropidonottis stolatus. 



34 specimens. With few exceptions, these had 7 supralabials, the 

 3rd and 4th touching the eye. 



Anomalies. — One specimen had two loreals \ on each side. The 

 temporals were two on both sides in one example. Supralabials 

 6 in three specimens on one side, the 2nd and 3rd touching the 

 eye in one, and the 3rd only in two specimens ; 7, the 4th only 

 touching the eye on both sides in one specimen. 



Breeding. — The season as in the case of piscator is much later in 

 these Hills than in the plains. 



In Dibrugarh this year I had many gravid mothers in April, May, 

 and June, and the young were hatching in June and July. In 

 Shillong I had an unusually large gravid 9 , measuring 2 feet 5 inches, 

 brought to me on the 10th of August, and another with three 

 eggs on the 25th of that month. On the 8th of August a $ was 

 brought in with 7 clustered eggs with which she was stated to have 

 been found. One was opened, and contained an embryo 3J inches 

 long. They were kept, but failed to hatch out. 



Eggs, — These varied considerably, the smallest was 1^ X f and 

 the largest If X f inch. 



Fond. — Six specimens had fed, and had taken frogs in every case. 



No examples were adorned with red. 



Tropidonotus subminiatus. 



12 examples, 4 $, 4 9, 4 not sexed. The largest was a 9, 3 

 feet 6^ inches long. Ventrals, 9 158 to 169, $ 160 to 168. The 

 tail was imperfect in all the examples but three, in which they varied 

 from 83 to 97. Scales, 19 anteriorly, 19 in midbody, 17 posteriorly. 

 As in others of this genus, the reduction from 19 to 17 is due to a 

 coalescence of the 3rd and 4th rows above the ventrals. 



Anomalies.— The prsoculars were two in two specimens. Supra- 

 labials 8, with the 3rd and 4th touching the eye in one example, the 

 4th and 5th touching the eye in three; 9, the 4th, 5th and 6th touch- 

 ing the eye in two examples on both sides, and in one on one side. 



