POPULAR TREATISE ON COMMON INDIAN SNAKES. 563 



syncranterian type (i.e. rapidly increasino- in size from before back- 

 wards). The palatine bone supports a sinirje small tooth (sometimes 

 none?) situated about the middle of its length. The ou-7'ygoid ser'ief^ 

 number (> to 10 *, and are preceded by a long edentulous space. The 

 mandibular series number about 12, which are ccmpressed, rather 

 small and subequal. A short edentulous space that would accommo- 

 date about one tootli precedes the dental array. (See Figs. D and F of 

 Diagram). 



* Boulenger says (Cat. Vol. II., p. 233) that there ai'e no pterygoid teeth in the Oligodon- 

 tides, but he is mistaken. In the three species of which I hd^ve skxxWa (suhgriseus, oorsalit 

 and venustiis) pterygoid teetli are present. 



( 7 he continued.) 



