68 Catalogue of Reptiles, 



Scales smootli, lozenge- shaped, on neck in seventeen, on body in fifteen 

 rows. 



Colour of male dark umber brown, beneath white ; colours distinctly 

 separated, upper labials white. 



Females, yellowish brown, mottled largely with yellow, which colour 

 sometimes predominates. 



a. adult male, (type.) Rangoon. W. Theobald, 



Junr., Esq. 

 Captured by E. Fowle, Esq., who is one of the very few 

 who have liberally aided me in the study of our Indian 

 reptiles. 



CADMUS, Theobald. 



Head thick, cuneiform. Form stout, but otherwise much like Tro- 

 pitlonotus. Scales smooth, in 27 rows. Anal bifid, eye moderate, 

 pupil round. 



C. cuNEiFORMis, Thcobald. 



Rostral large, running well back on the top of the head and encroach- 

 ing between the anterior frontals. j^ostril between two nasals. 

 Anterior frontals very small. Posterior frontals large. Loreal small, 

 triangular, with apex between anteocular and posterior frontal. An- 

 teocular one large, postocular three, upper labial seven, only the fourth 

 entering the orbit. 



Head high shelving in front, pointed, stout and cuneiform. A large 

 pair of chin- shields in contact with 5 labials and followed by a small 

 pair. 



Colour yellowish olive brown. An obsolete band of spots, down the 

 back on each side of spine, and lower on the side a strongly defined 

 band of black spots, many of them like a hollow horseshoe four scales 

 apart. Below dusky white, with an elongate streaky spot at the side 

 hetween each 4th and 5th ventral. 



a. type. Simla. Purchased. 



This very curious snake partakes of the characters of Tropidonotus 

 and Hypsirhina even more than Pegua does. 



TOMODON, DuMERiL et Bibron. 



T. STRiGATUs, Dum. et Bib. 



a. specimen injured. Calcutta. Mr. C. Swaries, 



This specimen is so crushed that I cannot make out its head shields, 

 but it appears to be identical with a single specimen obtained by 

 m.yself in Birma. It is not included in Giinther's Indian Reptiles, but 

 is recorded from India in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Colubrine Snakes, p. 62. 



Perhaps Hypsirhina plvmhea, 



