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broken up in the flanks. The dorsai ground colour extends well on 

 to the sides of the ventrals. The head is marked with a dark band 

 over the praetrontals which re-appear below the eye, oblique streaks 

 from the parietals, behind the gape to the side of the neck, and an 

 elongate, sagittiform mark on the nape, the apex of which meets the 

 praefrontal band. The belly is whitish and handsomely adorned with 

 squarish black spots, for the most part laterally disposed. A median 

 red stripe passes along the belly and beneath the tail, disappearing 

 anteriorly before the throat. 



