NOTES ON SNAKES COLLECTED IN CANNANORE. 



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Lycodon travancoricus. 



One specimen only came into my hands. It was a live female 

 measuring 1 foot 5f inches, tail 3^ inches, and it allowed me to handle 

 it with impunity. In color ft was dark purplish-brown, the dorsal 

 bars and flank reticulations so common among members of this genus 

 were straw coloured. After two days' immersion inspirit the yellow 

 had become white. Ventrals 177. Subcaudals 65, all paired. 



POLYODONTOPHIS SuBPUNCTATUS. 



I obtained one small specimen, I think a female, 8| inches long, of 

 which the tail accounted for 2 inches. Ventrals 102. Subcaudals 67. 

 The navel involved 3 shields and 28 intervened between it, and the anal 

 Temporal single, and in contact with the 7th only of the labial 

 series. A cuneate scale is wedged, between the 7th and 8th labials 

 which, if included as a labial, would make these shields number 10. 



* Implies intermediate between D and E. 



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