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Callophis viacclellandi (Reinhardt). 

 Four specimens were all from Pasliok, I examined another in the Darjee- 

 ling Museum and two others in St, Joseph's College collection. All were 

 oi \&viQtj univirguius (Giinther). The costal rows are 13 in the whole body 

 length. The ventrals ranged between 199 and 222, the subcaudals between 27 

 and 32. The last ventral was divided in one. There were from 23 to 32 black 

 rings on the body, 4 on the tail. Some of the first and last rings on the body 

 are complete in some specimens, the rest incomplete, not meeting the black 

 vertebral stripe. 



Amblycephalid^. 

 Amhh/cejihalus monticola (Cantor), 

 All ten specimens collected were from Pashok, the largest measuring 2 feet 

 3j inches, 



Lej)idosis. — The costals are in 15 rows in the whole length of the body, and 



the vertebrals but slightly enlarged, 

 the enlargement beginning gradu- 

 ally, and not due to a confluence 

 of shields on the spine. Boulenger 

 says that the 4th or 4th and 5th 

 supralabials touch the eye, and 



shows this in his figures in the 



Amhlycephahn monftcola ( X 2). Fauna of British India Reptilia and 



Batrachia (p. 415) and in his Catalogite, Vol. Ill, plate XXIII, figure 1, I have 

 now seen nearly twenty examples, and have only once found a supraiabial, viz., 

 the 4th, touching the eye. I find the shield surrounding the eye behind and 

 below subject to much variable division. In Boulecger's figure in the Fauna of 

 British India he shows but one supraiabial, viz., the 1st, as touching the nasal. 

 This is incorrect, the 2nd also invariably touches that shield. The supralabials 

 are peculiar in the great length of the last of the series which is as long 

 as the preceding two or three shields. The ventrals and subcaudals noted were 

 184+70, 184+70, and 183+70. 



Food. — In the stomach of one I found five small snails, one with the shell 

 quite perfect, the others with vestiges of shell adhering. In three or four 

 others there were small snails without shells of what appeared to me the same 

 species as in the first case. Slugs appear to be the staple diet of this species, 

 for in the Khasi Hills last year I noted large slugs taken on two occasions. 



ViPERIDiE. 



Lachesis vionticola (Giinther), 



Of 23 specimens, 15 were from Pashok, 7 from Tindharia, and 1 from Dar- 

 jeeling. I examined several others in the two local collections. 



Lepidosis. — The costals are usually in 23 rows anteriorly and in midbody, and 

 19 at a point two heads-lengths before the anus. In two specimens at a point 

 two heads-lengths behind the head they were 25, where in midbody they were 

 23. In only two examples were the scales 25 in midbody, and in both they 



