152 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XXII, 



Deiidropliis catidolineatus. W'illey, Spol. Zevlaii.. iQo,';, p. 8(1; I.e., I1306 



P- 2.VV 



Colour. — Dorsally bronze. No buff anterior vertebral stripe. 

 A series of blackish, equidistant, oblique, lateral stripes anteriorly. 

 No buff flank stripe or black lines. Ventrally greenish, lighter 

 anteriorly. Tail with two black lines on each side, the lower on 

 the edges of the subcaudals and ultimate row of supracaudals. 

 Head bronze above. No buff interparietal spot. A well defined 

 black postocular stripe. 



One erythritic specimen has passed through my hands. It 

 was a uniform chocolate colour dorsally, and ventrally unrelieved 

 by any markings. The upper lip, chin and throat were a dirty 

 3'ellow. 



Length.. — My largest measured 876 mm. (2 feet loi inches). 

 A juvenile specimen apparently recently hatched measured 305 

 mm. (12 inches). 



Food. — I have found a frog in the stomach. 



Breeding. — A gravid female was killed in the month of Ma\' 

 on Hopewell Estate, Balangoda, measuring 870 mm. (2 feet loj 

 inches). It contained three very elongate eggs measuring 41x8 

 mm. (i| Xf of an inch) 



Lepidosis. — The scales are in 13 rows to behind midbody, and 

 reduce to 9 before the vent. Ventrals, 149 to 164. Anal, divided. 

 Subcaudals 119 to 128. Loreal, one. Temporals, 1 + 2 + 2 or 

 2 + 2 + 2. Supralabials, 8 (rarely 9), the 4th and 5th (5th and 6th 

 when there are 9) touching the eye. 



Dentition. — From one skull in my collection. Maxillarj'^, 28 

 coryphodont. Palatine, 18 to 21. Pterygoid, 32 to 34. Mandi- 

 bular, 27 to 30. 



Distribution. — Ceylon ; S. India. 



Ceylon. Confined to the hills. Apparently uncommon and 

 local. Sab'wa Prov. Balangoda, Udugama, (Haly) ; Hopewell 

 Estate, Balangoda (F. W.) ; lUagaha (Haly). 



S. India. Ramnad (Ind. Mus.). Travancore (Ferguson). 



Note. — I have examined five specimens. 



Dcndrophis eflrenis Werner. 

 Werner's bronze-back. 



D. ejfrenis, Werntr, Refit. .\at. Hist. Jtfns. Hamburg. 1909, p. 221. 



Colour. — As in the last species. 



Length. — 884 mm. (2 feet 11 inches). 



Lepidosis. — The scales are in 13 rows at midbody. Ventrals, 

 175. Subcaudals, 129. Loreal, none. 



Distribution. — Ceylon. Said to be from Colombo. 



Note. — May prove to be an aberrant example of caudolineo- 

 latus. In one specimen seen by me I have noted that the prae- 

 frontai is confluent with the loreal on one side. 



