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33. Coluber prasinus. 



Coluber prasinus, Blyth, Journ. As. Son. Beng. xxiii. 18-54, p. 291 ; 



liouloK/. Faun. Iiul., licjit. p. 334 (1890); W. Sclater, Journ. 



As. So'c. Bvinj. Ix. 1891, p. 239. 

 Gonyosoma ^Tamineuni, Giinth. Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 294, pi. xxiii. 



fig-. D (18G4) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 190 (^1876) ; Anders. 



An. Zool. lies. Yiin7ian, p. 824 (1879). 



Rostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals a little broader than long, shorter than the praefrontals ; 

 frontal once and one fourth to once and one third as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals; loreal square or longer than deep ; one prceocular (some- 

 times divided), usually in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2 or 2 + 2 ; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 19 rows; dorsals feebly keeled in the adult, smooth in the 

 young. Ventrals with a lateral keel, 198-206; anal divided 

 (rarely entire) ; subcaudals 91-107. Uniform bright green above ; 

 upper lip and lower surfaces yellowish or greenish white. 



Total length 900 millim. ; tail 230. 



Eastern Himalayas, Khasi Hills, Assam, Burma. 



rt. Yg. (V. 203 ; C. 100). Khasi Hills (?). Dr. Griffith. 



(Type of G. gramineinn.) 

 b,c. S (V. 198; C. 107) Khasi Hills. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



& hgr. (V. 200 ; C. ?). [P.]. 



f/. $ (V. 198 ; C. 91). Toungvi, Shan States, Lieut. Blakeway [C.]. 



50U0 ft. 



34. Coluber quadrivirgatus. 



Coluber quadrivirgatus, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 209; Schleg. Phi/s. Serp. 



ii. p. 147, pi. V. tigs. 15 & 16 (1837), and Faun. Japan, p. 84, pi. i. 



(1838). 



vulneratus, Boie, I. c. p. 212. 



Compsosoma quadrivirgatum, D«?h. ^- Bibr. vii. p. 301 (1854). 

 Elaphis quadrivirgatus, Giinth. Cat. p. 94 (1858) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 



24, pi. i. tigs. 1-3 (1867) ; Hilgendorf, Sitz. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 



1880, p. 114. 

 biUueatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 497. 



Eye rather large ; rostral broader than deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals broader than long, shorter than the praefrontals ; 

 frontal once and three fifths to twice as long as broad, longer than 

 its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal usually as long as deep, or a little deeper ; 

 one praeocular, usually with a subocular below it ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2 + 2 or 2 + 3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or longer than the 

 posterior. Scales in 19 rows, feebly but distinctly keeled (some- 



