296 COLUBEID^. 



Total length 21 inches ; tail 4-3. 



Hob. Ponsee, Western Yunnan {Anderson) ; a second specimen 

 was obtained in the Kakhyen Hills by M. Tea. 



355. Lycodon gammiei. 

 Ophites g-ammiei, Blanf, J. A. S. B. xlvii, 1878, p. 130. 



Head flat; eye small. Body slender, compressed. Eostral 

 about as broad as high ; internasals much smaller than the pree- 

 frontals ; frontal very little longer than broad, with convex sides ; 

 loreal small, elongate ; one prseocular ; two postoculars ; temporals 

 irregular ; 8 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the 

 eye ; two elongate chin-shields of about equal length, the anterior 

 in contact with 5 lower labials. Scales in 19 rows, the nine 

 dorsal rows keeled, five rows at each side smooth. Ventrals 214, 

 bluntly angulate at the sides ; anal entire ; subcaudals 101 pairs. 

 Body surrounded by alternating dusky and light rings with very 

 irregular crooked margins ; head above dusky olivaceous with pale 

 spots in the middle of most of the shields ; an imperfect pale 

 collar behind the head ; lower surface of head and neck whitish. 



Total length 31-5 inches ; tail 7. 



Hah. Sikhim, 



Known from a single example, which I have not seen. 



356. Lycodon carinatus. 



Hm'ria cariuata, Kulil, Beitr. Zool. Verf/l. Anat. p. 95. 



Lycodon carinatus, Scliley. PJnjs. Sei-p. ii, p. 109, pi. iv, figs. 6 & 7. 



Cercaspis carinatus, Dum. <S,- Bihr. Erp. Gen. vii, p. 390 ; Giinth. 



Rept. B. I. p. 324 ; Jan, Icon. Ophid. 36, pi. vi, fiff. 1 : Theob. Cat. 



p. 201. 



Snout much depressed, broad but not spatulate ; eye rather 

 small. Eostral mucli broader than deep, visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals much shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal slightly longer 

 than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal elongate, not entering tlie eye ; 

 one prse- and two postoculars; temporals 2 + 3; 9 upper labials, 

 third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; 5 lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 19 rows, strongly keeled. Ventrals 188-195, angulate 

 laterally ; anal entire ; subcaudals 53-64, in a single row. Black, 

 encircled by white rings which are broader on the bell}^ than on 

 the back ; these annuh are broader in the young, the back of the 

 head of which is white. 



Total length 26 inches : tail 5. 



Eah. Ceylon. 



