81. rhadinjea. 

 Table showing jV timbers of Scales and Shields. 



163 



Scales. 



leiicogaster | ] 7 



breviceps 



caUigastcr 



mimus 



anomala 



sagitfifera 



cohella 



-purpurans , 



merremii 



fuifoa 



jageri 



genimaculata 



ohtusa 



serperastra 



affinix 



paeci/opogon 



lachrymans 



undulata 



melanauchen 



occipitalis 



decor ata 



vermiculaticcps 



clarata 



vitfafa 



laitrenfa 



godmani 



17 



17 



1.5 



19 



19 



17 



17 



17 



17 

 17-19 



17 



19 

 19 

 17 

 17 

 17 

 17 

 15 

 1,5 

 17 

 17 

 19 

 17 

 17 

 21 



Ventral?. 



140 

 1.54 

 152 



? 

 147-1.59 

 18(1-198 

 143-1(>3 

 150-170 

 141-164 

 165-18.3 

 147-165 

 191-208 

 174-192 



164 

 147-LS5 

 141-164 



173 

 149-1()7 



148 

 152-183 

 117-137 

 117 

 127 

 145-183 

 159-164 

 168-176 



Subcaudals 



30 

 48-54 

 46 

 ? 

 50-73 

 75-92 

 45-57 

 61-65 

 47-58 

 51-60 

 56-62 

 51-66 

 65-79 



78 

 68-71 

 66-75 



78 

 5S-S.5 



60 

 64-86 

 90-120 

 79 

 89 

 88-132 

 85-95 

 72-92 



Labials 



6 



6-7 



7 



7 



7-8 



1. Rhadinaea leucogaster 



Liophis leucQo-aster, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phiis ii 1863 d " 

 and Icon. Gen. 13, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1865). ' ~ 



289. 



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

 above; interriasals broader than long; suture between the inter- 

 nasals a little shorter than that between the pra3frontals ■ frontal 

 about once and a half as long as broad, longer than its distance 

 trom the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; latter as long as 

 their distance from the internasals ; loreal square ; one pr«- and 

 one postocular ; temporals 1-f 2 ; six upper labials, third and fouith 

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

 chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 1 7 rows 

 \ entrals 140 ; anal divided ; subcaudals yO. Brown above, with 

 black cross bands, some of the scales on the middle line between 

 the bands edged witli white: a black lateral stripe on the hinder 

 part ot the body, extending to the ends of the ventrals ; lower 

 surface white. 



Total length ISO millim. ; tail 28. 



Habitat unknown. 



