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is armed with twelve teeth — the thu"d on each side being enlarged, situated in front of the 

 mouth ; there is an interval behind it, and the last again is a little enlarged ; mandible with 

 a fang anteriorly. Greyish brown, with about twenty-five small, white, brown-edged cross 

 bars on the back of the trunk ; sides indistinctly reticulated with whitish ; no collar ; each 

 labial with a brown spot. Lower parts uniform white. 



A single specimen was brought by Captain B. H. Beddome from the Anamallay Mountains ; 

 it is 20 inches long, the tail measuring 3^ inches. 



LyCODON RUFOZONATUS. 



Lycodoa rufozonatus, Cantor, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, ix. p. 483. 

 Coronella striata, Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1856, p. 152. 

 Eumesodon striatus. Cope, ibid. 1860, p. 263. 



Head broad, depressed, triangular, with rather short and rounded snout; upper lip not 

 swollen, canthus rostralis rounded. Rostral shield of moderate size, somewhat broader than 

 high, slightly bent backwards on the upper surface of the head. Anterior and posterior 

 frontals broader than long, the former not quite half the size of the latter. Vertical broad 

 anteriorly ; occipitals of moderate size, rounded behind. Nostril lateral, between two nasals ' 

 loreal elongate, entering the orbit ; a small praeorbital above, which does not extend to the 

 upper surface of the head ; two postoculars ; supraciliary of moderate size. Eight upper 

 labials, the third, fourth, and fifth entering the orbit. Temporals rather irregularly arranged, 

 the two anterior being elongate and in contact with the oculars. Scales smooth, in seventeen 

 rows, with a pair of minute grooves. Abdomen and tail with an angular ridge along each 

 side. Ventrals 193-201; anal entire; subcaudals 72-75. Each maxillary is armed with a 

 lateral series of about eight teeth, the third and last of which are somewhat longer than the 

 others ; the third is not placed quite at the front part of the mouth, but more backwards on 

 the side ; there is a free interspace behind it. The three or four anterior mandibulary teeth are 

 rather longer than the following. Crimson above, dotted and speckled with brown, and with 

 about eighty broad brown cross bands, twice as broad as the interspaces, not extending down- 

 wards to the belly ; sides and lower parts of the tail with brown spots ; belly yellowish. 

 Each shield on the upper side of the head brown with yellowish margin ; a brown band runs 

 from the eye to the angle of the mouth ; an oblique crimson band on each side of the neck. 



This is rather a stout species, found on the Chinese island of Chusan ; it attains to a length 

 of 40 inches, the tail measuring 5^ inches. The typical specimens of Coronella striata are 

 said to be from Ningpo. 



