620 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



Remarks. 



Hair of mammal " in gastro." Killed in native 

 hut at midnight. 



3 postoculars on both sides. A gecko ''in gastro". 

 Killed in roof of a house. 



Ventrais and subcaudals 197+7.S. 

 Yentrals and subcaudals 210+67. 

 The anal and the first 3 subcaudals entire. 

 Found on a beam in a house. 



Ventrais and subcaudals 206 + 68. Killed in 



roof of native hut. A hatchling. 

 Ventrais and subcaudals 204 + 63. 

 Had just siezed a gecko in bathroom of my 



house at night. 

 Ventrais and subcaudals 205 + 65. 



Ventrais and subcaudals 197+69 



Contained 6 eggs, \'y' long. 



3 ovarian follicles apparently impregnated. 



Contained 8 eggs, rather more than one inch long. 



") Both found together in an old brick wall of a 



J> house. The 9 contained 7 eggs varying 

 J from If" to 11" long. 



f Both found together in a hole in a bath-room. 

 -( The second specimen was cut in half , and 



[^ the anterior pai-t only brought. 

 A nearly digested gecko " in gastro." 



Killed in a house, 

 postoculars on the left side. 



A spirit specimen sent to me had 9 supialabials with the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 

 6th touching the eye on the right side. 



The specimens were all of one variety. The labials were spotted, mottled or 

 sullied with brown, or uniformly whitish. The ground colour was brown of 

 various shades, and the cross-bars yellow or yellowish, numbering 10 to 15 in 

 the anterior half of the body. On the 18th July 5 eggs were found in a 

 Planter's bungalow. Four of these hatched out one escaping ; the fifth egg 

 was not fertile. Two hatchlings measured 6^" and one 6|." Two believed 

 to be 9 9 had the ventrais and subcaudals 209 + 66 and 208 + 67, and in both 

 these 27 ventrais were interposed between the navel and the anal shield. In 

 the specimen believed to be a male the ventrais and subcaudals numbered 

 197+68, and 28 ventrais intervened between the navel and the anal shield. 



On the 31st July two hatchlings were discovered on a gun case in the corner 

 of a room. One measured 6|" and the other 7^". 



