38 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
The ventrals in the Matale specimen are 228 and subcaudals 28. 
I have prepared the skull, and find the dentition as follows : 
maxillary, 2 to 3 small grooved teeth behind the paired fangs ; 
palatine, 6 to 7; pterygoid, 6; mandibular, 8 to 9. 
Reference to Boulenger’s Catalogue (Vol. III., p. 396) shows 
that the genus Callophis has no maxillary teeth behind the fangs. 
It is obvious from this that the characters made use of by this 
authority to differentiate this genus must be altered, or this species 
removed therefrom ; and in this connection I may mention that in a 
specimen of the species Maculiceps lately received from Tenasserim 
(Kawkariek, Amherst District) I find three grooved teeth in the 
maxilla behind the paired fangs. 

