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Belly greenish white. The white line and lips may be absent in 

 old females. 



Grows to 33 inches. (Tail 60.) 



Inhabits Bengal, Assam, Kachar, Upper Barma, Pegu, Ten- 

 asserim, " Java, Siam, and China," fide Giinther. 



T. labiali-s, Fitz. Steindachner Reise der Nov. Rep., p. 86. 

 Bothrophis labialis, Fitz, Aush., p. 411. 



Supranasals in contact, as in T. crythrurus. A narrow 

 superciliary forms the hinder margin of the orbit. Superciliaries 

 two. Scales in 23 rows, keeled. Anal large, entire. Ventrals 

 173, 168. Subcaudals 54 — 56, the last 6 or 7 entire. 



Colour above brownish grey, brown spotted and barred. Belly 

 yellowish or dark grey, spotted. Tail below margined with 

 brown. Head above dark greyish brown. Upper labials yellow 

 or pale grey. Sometimes a yellow line behind the eye, separat- 

 ing the dark colour of the back from the paler colour below. 



Inhabits the Nikobar group. 



T. carinatus. Gray, Zool. Mis., p. 48. 



T. bicolor, Gray. An. & Mag., N. H., 1842, XII, 



p. 392. 

 T. porphyraceua, Blyth, apud Giinther. J. R. 

 Cryptelytrops carinatus, Cope. Pro. A. Nat. Sci. 



Phil., 1859, p. 340. 



Head short and high, with usually two rows of scales below 

 the infraoculars. One or two shields usually between the supra- 

 nasals, or, if absent, the supranasals only just touch but do not 

 form a broad suture. Superciharies very large. Scales strongly 

 keeled in 23 or 25 rows, rarely in 21. Ventrals 155 — 169. Sub- 

 caudals 51 — 60. Colour above uniform grass green, paler below, 

 or whitish. Tail yellowish or rusty. 



Grows to 37 inches. (Tail 60.) 



Inhabits the Western Himalayas (vide Stoliczka), Sykkim, 

 the Garo Hills, Bengal, Pegu and Tenasserim. The Andaman 

 Islands (?) 



