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have been killed " in copula " on a tea garden close to him at the 

 end of April or early in May last year. 



( VlPBRID^, 



' Lachesis gramineus. 



A single specimen. The costal rows are 21 in the anterior and 

 middle parts of the body, 15 at a point two headslengths before the 

 anus. The ventrals and subcaudals 171 + 57. It is greenish-yellow 

 in colour with a whitish flank line. It had evidently eaten some mam- 

 mal for a mass of felt-like matted hair was protruding from the anus. 



