MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 767 



several other specimens killed at the same time which being mutilated were 

 not worth keeping. 

 Spirit specimen — 

 Length~-V-&1" , tail 2^". 

 Scales — mid-body, 17, smooth, 

 Ventrals—{1Q9) rounded in front, angulate behind. 

 ^MaZ— single. 

 Subcaudals — (31) double. 

 Roatral — breadth same as height, 

 Internasals — suture nearly as long as prefrontal. 



Frontal — distinctly longer than distance to end of snout. Equal parietals, 

 Nasals — divided. 

 Loreal — single, longer than high, 

 Preocular — 2 R., 3 L., upper not reaching crown. 

 Temporals — 2 and 2. 



Labials — 7 (3 and 4 enter the eye). 3-7 deep, subequal. 

 Anterior chin shields — larger than posterior, contact with four lower 

 labials. 



Colour — olive-brown above, a few scales irregularly outlined darker. 



Dark chevron- 

 shaped collar di- 

 rected forwards, 

 and broad streak 

 from parietals to 

 behind gape. Pre- 

 ocular transverse 

 streak continued 

 through eyes to 

 become a sub- 

 ocular between 

 4th and 5th la- 

 bials. Belly yel- 

 lowish , with large , 

 irregularly outlined, plumbe- 

 ous, spots scarce in front, 

 more numerous behind. 



Beneath tail uniform yellow- 

 ish-white. No spots. 



(JSimotes violaceus X 4.) 



