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D. Barnesii, Gunther. P. Z. S., 1869, p. 506, pi 40, f. 2. 

 Scales in 19 rows, Loreal as high as long. Praeoculars three, 

 the upper not reaching the vertical. Postoculars two. . Upper 

 labials eight, the third and fourth entering the orbit. Temporals 

 numerous, scale-like. Anal entire. Colour dark grey, finely- 

 powdered with brown. Irregular brown band-like markings on 

 the back, and irregular black spots along the lower part of the 

 side. Belly finely mottled with brown. Head dark brown, with 

 a dark streak from eye to gape. 



Length 23 inches. 

 Inhabits Ceylon. 



D. hexagonota, Blyth (Stol. J. A. S., 1870, p. 198, pi. XI, 

 f. 4, and 1871, p. 421. 



Body compressed. Scales in 17 to 21 rows, according to 

 age, with an apical groove. Anal bifid. Head very large. 

 Loreal squarish, narrow above and higher than long. One large 

 prseocular, not touching the vertical. Two postoculars, the lower 

 a little smaller than the other. 8 upper labials, third, fourth 

 and fifth entering the orbit. Eye very large and prominent. 

 Colour coral red on back and sides. Head with a greenish 

 smaragdine tinge. A black dot on the occipitals, and sometimes 

 the vertical or a median streak on its anterior portion. Some- 

 times a short lateral streak on each occipital. Upper labials and 

 below white. Body above marked by very numerous transverse 

 slightly undulating blackish bands as broad as their interspaces 

 and reaching to the ventrals. These bands disappear with age 

 and the colour tones down to a reddish brown with a pinkish, 

 yellowish or blackish interstitial skin. 



Grows to 45 inches. (Tail 9"3.) 



Inhabits Dorjiling Hills to 4,000, and the Andaman Islands, 

 Bengal, &c. 



Anderson (Proc, Zoo. Soc. for Feb. 1871) is inclined to refer 

 to this species multifasciata, Blyth, but Stoliczka (J. A. S., 1871, 

 p. 440) points out that the eye of multifasciata is much smaller 

 and that it ranges rather with D. Forsteni of the Indian Fauna 



