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familiar and which lie extended along or across the branches in graceful 

 curves distributing their weight on many points. 



REMABKS. 



11-11-03, 



28-11-03 

 16-3-04. 

 29-4-04. 

 12-5-04. 

 23-5-04. 

 1-8-04. 



Labials 9, the 4th, 5th and 6th touching 

 the eye on the right side. 



Contained a lizard {Calotes versicolor). 



Contained a lizard {Calotes versicolor"). 



Labials 8, the 4th and 5th only touching 

 the eye. 



The scales were the same in all specimens, and also in 2 sloughs I 

 found on hushes, 2 heads lengths from head 21 ; midbody 21 ; 2 

 heads lengths before vent 15. 



Dryophis mycterizans. 



The " pachola " of the Malabaris. 1 obtained 49 specimens, the sex 

 was not recorded in 28, and of the rest 15 were females and 6 males. 

 The accompanying table makes it appear oommonest in November* 

 but this is not the case as far as I am aware. I had to discourage 

 the natives from bringing it in, it proved so plentiful. I believe it 

 will be found equally in evidence all the year round. 



The females appear to grow much larger, my largest male was 4 

 feet, 4f inches, and I obtained 7 females of greater length, the largest 

 being 6 feet and £ inch. The males had longer tails. The ventrals in 

 the two sexes were about the same, but the subcaudals were much more 

 numerous in the males (166 — 170) than in the females (137 — 149). 



Lizards proved the favoured article of diet. 



My one pregnant specimen contained immature eggs late in July. 

 Two specimens I judged to be hatchlings* were received late in 

 November. 



• Ferguson " B. N. H. S. Jl. " Vol.2, p. 6, "records the birth of ycang measuring 

 '' abaut seventeen inches." 



