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fronto-supraoculars more than twice the fronto-parietals. Supraoculars. 

 — As long a3 and rather broader than the frontal along a line connecting 

 the centres of the eyes. Nasals. — Divided ; suheqnal ; in contact with 

 the 1st and 2nd supralabials. Loreals. — One : as long as the two nasals. 

 PrcB0CMZar*5.— One, nearly touching the frontal. Eye. — Large, equals 

 its distance to the anterior edge of the nostril. Postoculars. — Two. 

 Temporals. — One anterior. Supralabials. — 8, the 4th and 5th touching 

 the eye. Infralahials. — 6, the 6th very long, equalling the 4 preceding- 

 shields taken together ; in contact with 2 scales behind. Sublinguals. — 

 Two pairs, the posterior longer than the anterior ; and in contact with 

 the 5th and 6th infralahials. Ventrals. — 193 to 199. Anal. — Divided. 

 Subcaudals. — 132 ? (perhaps very slightly docked j. Costals. — Two 

 heads-lengths behind the head 13, midbody 13, two heads-lengths before 

 the anus 11. The rows reduce to 11 by a coalescence of the 4th and 

 5th rows above the ventrals. Vertebrals. — Very well developed, 

 as broad as long in midbody, as broad or broader than the last row. 

 Body. — Cylindrical. Colour. — Very like pictus. Dorsally bronze-brown 

 ending abruptly in the middle of the penultimate row, the overlapped 

 margins of the scales a bright sky-blue. A lighter vertebral stripe. 

 Belly, ultimate and lower half of penultimate rows greenish opales- 

 cent. Head ruddy-brown above with a well defined black postocular 

 streak continued on to the forebody. Lips and chin greenish- 

 opalescent. Dentition. — For fear of damaging the specimens, I only 

 investigated the maxillary teeth. 1 counted 20 on the right side, the 

 last 2 or 3 of which appeared to be slightly longest. 



Dendrelaphis biloreatus (WallJ. 

 The type specimen, the only one collected, came from Sadiya, and 

 was described and figured in this Journal (Vol. XVIII, p. 273). It is 

 now in the British Museum. 



Simotes albocinctus (Cantor). 

 Nine specimens came to bag. Three were from near Dibrugarh 

 (Maijan and Greenwood Estates), one from North Lakimpur (Dejoo), 

 one from near Tinsukia, three from Sadiya, and one from near Jaipur 

 (Namsang/, all of these belonged to variety ^?//?2ca (A of Boulenger'.s 

 Catalogue). In the Jaipur specimen the subcaudals were 47, in the 

 one from Dejoo 49, and in the one from Maijan 50 (Boulenger 51 to 

 69). A $ measuring 2 feet 5^ inches (the tail imperfect 4 inches) 



