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on body in 14 rows. Diameter of body 55 times in the total length, in length 

 of tail 5.5 times ; length of tail in that of body about 10. 



Color very light brown above, ashy gray beneath. 



Type. — No. 3749, Mas. Comp. Zobl., Amballa, India, M. M. Carlton. 



There are two other specimens in the collection, No. 3217, which show the 

 same characters as the type. 



The species is named for Rev. M. M. Carlton, who for many years made valua- 

 ble collections in Upper India. 



This new form evidently represents a localized race of G. blanfordii Blgr., 

 known first from Sind, the type locality, and later from Northern Eeluchistan 

 (Alcock & Finn., Journ. Asiat. Soc, Bengal, 65, p. 561). Its most noticeable 

 divergence is its less elongate form. 



Natrix aequifasciata, sp. nov. 



Eye rather large. Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 almost wedge-shaped, twice as long as broad, one and one-half times as long 

 as prefrontals ; frontal one and two-thirds as long as broad, as long as distance 

 from end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; 

 two preoculars and two or three postoculars; one or two suboculars may be 

 present, — these are very small and separated by the fifth upper labial. Temporals 

 2 + 3, — these may be broken into several scales ; nine upper labials, the seventh 

 largest and the fifth always entering orbit, — the fourth and sixth may do so also, 

 or they may be excluded by the suboculars ; five pairs of lower labials in contact 

 with anterior chin shields, which are a very little shorter than the posterior. 

 Scales in nineteen rows strongly keeled, except the outer row, on which the carina- 

 tion is weak. Ventrals 148-151 ; anal divided; subcaudals 74-75. 



Color (iu alcohol) boldly banded with twenty or twenty-one black bars on the 

 body and twelve on the tail. The interspaces narrower than the bars, but less 

 narrow laterally than dorsally, white with a slight brownish tinge. Ventral sur- 

 face ivory white, with black markings of the bars ; these often end abruptly at the 

 median line. The black blotches are roughly alternate. 



Types. — No. 7101, Mus. Comp. Zobl., two specimens, each about 20 cm. long, 

 from Mt. Wuchi, Central Hainan. Taken by one of Mr. Owston's Japanese 

 collectors. 



This strongly differentiated species shows a probable relationship to both N. 

 tigrina and N. piscator. 



Cope's Trimenodytes balteatus (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1894, p. 426) 

 probably represents an abnormal Natrix, which, however, cannot be identified 

 with this species. 



Pseudoxenodon stejnegeri, sp. nov. 



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Rostral just visible from above ; internasals shorter than prefrontals ; frontal 

 almost one and one-half times as long as broad, shorter than distance to tip of 



