230 coLrBBiD.T;. 



laterally, 170-202 ; anal divided; subcaudals 41 -59. Pale brown 

 or orange above, with weU-detined black cross bands, which vary 

 in number and in width according to individuals, and may be edged 

 with white ; an angular or transverse black baiul between the eyes, 

 another behind, with the apex on the frontal, and a tliird on the 

 nape ; lower surfaces uniform yellowish, rarely spotted with brown 

 or with a brown posterior border to the ventrals. 



Total length 600 millim. ; tail 90. 



India and Ceylon, northwards to Nepal and the Himalayas. 



A. Belly uniform yellowish. 



a-d. c? (V. 178, 172 ; C. India. 

 69, 50), 2 (V. 192 ; C. 

 46),&vo-. (V.186,188; 

 C. 54, 50).' 

 e. 2 (V. 183 ; C. 45). ^[epal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 /. Yg. (V. 187 ; C. 53). Sikkim. Me.ssrs. v. Schlagin- 



tweit[C.]. 

 Col. Svkes [C.]. 

 Dr. Leith [P.]. 

 Dr. Leith [P.]. 

 Rev. G. Smith [P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.J. 



p. $ (V. 199; c.47). 



Sir J. Banks [P.]. 

 Capt. Gascoigue [P.]. 

 (Type of S. albiventer.) 



B. Belly spotted with brown. 



a. Yg. (V. 185 ; C. 40). Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



b. 2 (V. 180 ; C. 41). S. India. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



[P.-J. 



19. Simotes theobaldi. (Plate IX. fig. 3.) 



Simotes theobaldi, Giinth. Ann. 8<- May. N. H. (4) i. 1868, p. 417 ; 

 Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 315 (1890). 



Nasal divided or semi-divided ; portion of rostral seen from above 

 shorter than its distance from the frontal ; suture between the 

 internasals much shorter than that between the prsefrontals ; frontal 

 a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout, a little 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal twice as long as deep, longer than 

 the posterior nasal ; prseocular single ; two postoculars ; temporals 

 1 + 2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior 

 chin-shields about two thirds the length of the anterior. Scales in 

 17 rows. Yentrals 171-180; anal divided; subcaudals 84-42. 

 Brown above, with three light longitudinal lines, between which are 



