TRIMERESURUS ANAMALLENSIS. 
The description of this snake by Giinther is as follows :—‘‘ The 
second upper labial shield forms the front part of the facial pit, gene- 
rally a small shield between the supra-nasals. Scales on the head and 
on the body more or less. distinctly keeled, in twenty-one series. 
Ventrals, 148-158; sub-caudals, 51-55. Ground colour generally 
yellowish green, with a dorsal series of large rhombic black spots, each 
spot subdivided by or variegated with yellow. Upper side of the head 
marbled with black in adult specimens, uniform greenish in young ones ; 
a black or brown band runs from the back edge of the eye to the angle 
of the mouth ; supra-ciliary, with one or two black cross streaks. Belly 
yellowish green, with numerous yellow and green spots along its side. 
Tail black, with yellow and green spots. Young specimens may be 
recognised by the dark temple streak ; but nearly all the other markings 
are very indistinct, and the ground colour is a reddish olive ; tail with 
white extremity. 
“A specimen received with others from the same locality has a 
brownish purple ground colour, with a dorsal series of brown spots ; 
belly marbled with purple ; tail black, with irregular greenish rings, and 
with some indistinct small yellowish spots. This specimen also has the 
supra-ciliary divided into two; but, nevertheless, we consider it merely 
a variety of about a dozen specimens from the Anamally Mountains ; 
the largest is twenty-four inches long, tail measuring three and a half 
inches.” 
Of three specimens forwarded by Dr. Shortt, of Madras, to Sir 
Joseph Fayrer, one was nineteen inches long, one inch and three-quarters 
in girth, tail measuring two inches and three-quarters; a second 
was twenty-seven inches long, and two inches and three-quarters in 
girth, tail being three inches and a half; whilst a third one, which had 
