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G. Dekkanensis, Gunther. 



Head finely granular. Body covered with flat sub-equal tuber- 

 cles, disposed in transverse series. Tail covered with rings of 

 square sub-equal scales. Colour reddish]olive with narrow white, 

 black-edged cross bands, the first forming a horse-shoe across the 

 nape from eye to eye, three bands on trunk and five on the tail. 

 Pupil elliptical. 



Length of type 4*50 inches. 



Inhabits the Dekkan. 



G. Lawderanus, Stoliczka. J. A. S., B., 1872, p. 105. 



Head granular. Body covered with granular scales, with larger 

 ones intermixed of about twice the size of the others. Claws 

 well developed lying between enlarged scales but not retractile. 

 Colour greenish brown, densely marbled and spotted with dark 

 brown, with some indistinct whitish, anteriorly dark margined 

 cross bands. An indistinct dark band from the eye to the ear. 

 Front and hind edges of the eye white. Labials spotted with 

 brown. Length about 4 inches. 



Inhabits Almorah. 



G. Oldhami, Theob. 



G. fasciolatus, mss label, by Stoliczka. 

 Crown of head behind the eyes finely granular, the scales in 

 front being larger. Back granular with about 30 longitudinal 

 rows of tubercles contained between an area bounded by faint 

 keels margining the belly. These keels are distinctly defined 

 by some small regular somewhat distant opaque white spots. 

 Pupil vertical. Rostral large grooved behind, followed by two 

 small supranasals which are not in contact. Nostrils below the 

 supranasals margined behind by small scales. Mental moderate. 

 Three pairs of chin shields. Eleven upper and ten lower labials 

 regularly decreasing from the front, with 3 rows of enlarged scales 

 beneath the lower labials. Scales of throat minutely granular. 

 A rhomboidal prseanal patch of 19 enlarged scales, margined in 

 front by a continuous line of 40 enlarged femoral scales ; barely 

 enlarged in the middle and smaller than the scales of the 



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