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Dentition. — From four skulls in my collection. Maxillary, 26 

 to 28, coryphodont. Palatine, 13 to 18. Pterygoid, 24 to 29. 

 ^Mandibular, 25 to 29. 



Distribution. — S India ; Bengal ; Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; 

 Burma. 



S. India. Upper Godavery District (No. 6909, Ind. Mus.). 



Bengal. Jalpaiguri District (F. W.). 



Eastern Himalayas. Darjiling District (F. W.). 



Assam. As far north as Sadiya (F. W.) ; Sibsagar (No. 4046, 

 Ind. Mus.) ; Narainpur (No. 3998, Ind. Mus.) ; N. Cachar (No. 11368, 

 Ind. Mus.) ; Silchar (F. W.) ; Garo Hills (No. 7713, Ind. Mus.) ; 

 Tura (Bombay coll.); Naga. Hills (No. 7717, Ind. Mus.); Chitta- 

 gong (F.W.). 



Burma. Ramri Island, Arrakan (No 7680, Ind. Mus.) ; Upper 

 Burma (F. W.). 



Dendrophis bifrcnalis Boulenger. 

 Boulenger's Dendrophis (or Bronze Back). 



Dendrophis bifrenalis. .\bercromby, Spol. Zeylan.. 1911, pp.205 '^"'^ 

 207 Boulenger, Cat..\o\. II, 1893, p. 80: Ferg-uson, Bomb. N.H.J., 

 1895, p. 72; Sarasin, Zool. Jahr.. Jena igro. p. 128; Wall. Bomb. 

 N.H.J.. 1913, p. 6,39 • Werner, Rept. Nat. Hist. Mus. Hamburg, 1909, 

 p. 246; NVilley. Spol. Zeylan.. 1904, p. 116. 



Colour. — Dorsally bronze, the bases and the edges of the scales 

 black. The lower borders of the vertebrals and costals enclose a 

 turquoise-blue patch. No buff anterior vertebral stripe. Usually 

 a series of more or less distinct black, lateral, anterior, oblique 

 bars. A light flank stripe sometimes faintly indicated with no 

 black lines above or below, more usually absent. Ventrally above 

 the keels dark olive, between the keels buff or greenish-yellow 

 merging to buff anteriorly. No black lines on the tail. Head 

 bronze above. No buff" interparietal spot. Lore dusky sometimes 

 black. A well-defined black posterior stripe. No anterior supra- 

 labials with black posterior edges. 



Food. — I have twice found an arboreal frog in the stomach. 



Breeding. — A. Travancore specimen contained five large eggs, 

 but the date of its capture is not on record. 



Len?Jh. — Boulenger gives 1030 mm. (3 feet 4 inches). I have 

 seen nothing larger. 



Lepidosis. — The scales are in 15 rows to behind midbod}', reduc- 

 ing to II or 9 before the vent. Ventrals, 154 to 176 Anal, divided. 

 vSubcaudals, 144 to 165. Loreals, two (i-f-i), taken together 

 longer than the nasals. Temporals H-i-f-2 or 2-I-2-I-2. Supra- 

 labials 9, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th touching the loreals, the 5th and 6th 

 the eye. 



Dentition. — From three skulls in my collection, one from Trav- 

 ancore and two from Ceylon. Maxillary, 22 to 25, coryphodont. 

 Palatine, 12 to 14. Pterygoid, 21 to 27 (both extremes from Galle.) 

 Mandibular, 23 to 27. 



Distribution. — S. India, Ceylon. 



