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side being three-fourths as broad as the ventral portion between 

 the keels. Colour above pale, greenish olive, each costal with a 

 dark spot, surrounded by a pale margin. The vertebrals simi- 

 larly ornamented posteriorly, and obtusely keeled, more on the 

 three front plates, and young. Beneath pale yellow, a yellow 

 superciliary line from nose, and another below the eye. 



Inhabits Pegu and Tenasscrim, but not Bengal. Females grow 

 to 8 inches in a straight line. Males being much smaller. Giin- 

 ther's description of E. ocellata, D. et B., is taken from a speci- 

 men of the species, and he does not seem to be acquainted with 

 the true ocellata. Gray describes the margin of the thorax as 

 reddish (Sup., Cat. S. R., p. 63), but this colour is merely an 

 adventitious stain. 



This species abounds in Pegu, and when the grassy inundated 

 plains dry up in March, and are swept clean by fire, the natives 

 collect for food by hundreds, the scorched animals. • 



M. ocellata, D. et B. Erpet, General, II, p. 329, pi. 1561. 



BataguT ocellata, D. et B., Gray. Cat. S. R., p. 36. 



B. ocellata, D. et B., Theobald. Cat., Rep., As. Soc, Mus., 

 p. 13. J. A. S., B., 1868. 

 Colour black, each costal plate with an ocellus placed rather 

 low and formed by a narrow yellow line. Above the ocellus some 

 irregular looped lines of similar color. Each vertebral with a 

 narrow yellow mesial line. The four last vertebrals with a yel- 

 low linear horse-shoe mark with the ends directed forwards. 

 The nuchal and each marginal with a vertical yellow median 

 streak. Two vertical yellow lines from the nostrils to the lips. 

 A curved line from the nostril to the gape. A yellow spot at 

 the extremities of the mandible, with a paler continuation along 

 the throat. A yellow line from the snout over the eye to the 

 neck, and a shorter one below it, from the eye. An occipital 

 yellow streak. In spirits the yellow is pale primrose, but durino- 

 life was much brighter. Below uniformly yellow, dashed with 

 dusky black on the sides. The specimen described was a male 

 and measured 5 inches ; females growing a little larger. 

 Inhabits Lower Bengal (but not Burmah). 



