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pointed behind. Superciliaries small. Occipitals large, elono-ated, 

 pointed behind, with a pair of large temporals on each side. 

 Anal entire. Back purplish brown, with a shining nacreous 

 lustre, with transverse broad irregular shaped black bands ex- 

 tending to the tip of the tail (about 40) at nearly equal distances, 

 and which are continued (though not broad) underneath the 

 belly and tail, but do not quite meet. Sides (2 or 2| of the 

 lowest rows of scales) and belly of a bright cherry colour. 

 Head black in front, neck with the 5th, 6th, and 7th labials, and 

 a portion of the occipitals cherry coloured. Length 21 1 inches, 

 of which the tail is 2 inches. Circumference 1| of an inch. 

 Subcaudals 31. Abdominals 228. 

 Inhabits Malabar forests, the Wynaad at 3,000 feet. 



C. pentalineatus, Bed. Mad. Mon. J. Med. Sci. 



" 7 upper labials. 2 postoculars. 1 anteocular. Of a cherry 

 colour, with 5 longitudinal black streaks from the neck to the 

 end of the body, and 3 along the upper part of the tail ; the 

 middle streak is the broadest, the lowest streak is between the 

 1st and 2nd scales from the abdominals, the 2nd between the 

 3rd and 4th. The fifth row of scales is untouched by any of the 

 black streaks, the broad central streak occupies the whole of the 

 central row of scales along the top of the back and part of the 

 row on each side of it; belly uniform cherry red. Neck black. 

 Head with black markings." 



Grows to 36 inches. 



Inhabits the Travankor Hills. 



C. MacClellandii Reinh. Calcutta Jour. Nat. Hist., 1844, 

 IV., p. 532. 

 a personatus, Blyth. J. A. S., 1855, XXIII, p. 298. 

 C. univirgatus, Giinther. P. Z. S., 1859, p. 83, pi. 17. 

 Upper labials 7. Anal bifid. Ventrals 218. Subcaudals 28. 

 Head and neck black, with a yellow bar behind the eyes. Body 

 and tail reddish brown, with generally a black vertebral line 

 from the nape to the tip of tail. Belly yellowish, with black 

 cross bands or quadi'angular spots. Sometimes the belly bars 



