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Coluber radiatus. 

 One adult, one quice young marked just like the adult. The ventrals and 

 subcaudals of the latter 246+93. 



Simoies alhocinctus. 

 Four examples of variety typica ((Jantor). 



Chri/sopelea ornata. 

 One fine specimen of variety F of Bonlenger's Catalogue (III, p. 198). The 

 costal rows are 17 anteriorly and in midbody, 1?> at a point two head-lengths 

 before the anus. The ventrals are 214, the last being divided like the anal. 

 Tail imperfect. 



DipsaclomorpTiu? hexagonotus. 



One specimen quite typical. 



Psammodynastes pulverulentus. 



One adult and one young. The adult blackish, wiih a conspicuous series of 

 rufous spots on each s de of the back. The young one is striped longitudinal- 

 ly. A dark stripe involves the upper half of the ultimate row, and two-and-a- 

 half rows above, then a light stripe involves the upper half of the 4th, the 

 whole of the 5th and the lower half of the 6th rows A median dorsal 

 stripe is I'ather obscure in definition. There are also indistinct cross bars. 

 An irregular series of bright ochre spots adorn the flanks, and the belly is 

 streaked and spotted with ochre anteriorly. 



ViPERIDyK. 



Lachesis gramineus. 



Pour examples. The costals are 21 in the anterior and middle parts of 

 the body, 15 at a point two heads-lengths before the anus. One adult is 

 yellowish-green with no flank-line, another bright green with an interrupted 

 line in the flanks formed of white dashes on the upper borders of the scales of 

 the last row. One young one has a pale rather indistinct flank line, and 

 another a flank line of liver and white. 



Captain Mackenzie tells me that one of the sepoys of the 6'2nd Punjabis 

 encountered a hamadryad one day when out shooting. The man was stalking 

 a khakar (Cervulus muntjac). Unknown to him the snake was close to the deer, 

 and when he shot the latter, the snaKe glided swiftly straight at him, and he 

 shot it. It measured y feet 11^ inches, and contained a large monitor lizard 

 (probably Vavanus hengalensis) measuring 3 feet 9 inches. It was brownish- 

 black in colour with faint black rings in the anterior 5 feet, and yellowish-white 

 bands in the rest of the body, not conspicuous until the scales were separated. 

 The throat was yellowish white, and the head shields maigined with black. 



F. WALL, C.M.Z.S., Major, i.m.s. 



Almora, 2Wh June 1909. 



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No. XX.— A SNAKE FLIRTATION. 



When inspecting forest in the neighbourhood of Ghodbunder (Thana Dis- 

 trict) at the beginning of June last, my attention was attracted to a wriggling 



