TRIMERESURUS STRIGATUS. 
“ The shield forming the front part of the facial pit is separate from 
the second upper labial. Supra-ciliary shield narrow; no large shields 
behind the rostral. The whole upper surface of the head is covered 
with small, nearly smooth scales. Nine or ten upper labials, becoming 
smaller in size behind. Seales distinctly keeled, in twenty-one series. 
Ventrals 136-142; sub-caudals 31-40. Tail but slightly prehensile, 
terminating in a short cervical scale.” (Giinther.) 
Sir Joseph Fayrer says—‘“‘ A specimen in the Indian Museum 
measures fourteen inches and a half; girth one inch and a quarter ; it 
is brown, with a line of darker coloured, irregular vertebral spots. It 
has a horseshoe-shaped whitish mark on the neck. There is a trian- 
gular dark spot below the eye and loreal pit, and a dark brown band 
leading from the eye to the neck. The lower jaw and belly marked with 
black spots. The end of the tail terminates in a scale; in young 
- specimens it is white.” It is found on the Neilgherries, Anamallies, 
and Deccan. It does not measure more than nineteen inches. 
Halys Himalayanus. 
Giimther describes the snake as follows:—“Snout of moderate 
length, broader than long, with the nose rather protruding. Rostral 
shield oblique, higher than broad ; frontals well developed, not broken 
up into smaller shields. The anterior frontals short, transversely 
produced, and tapering on the sides; both taken together form a sort of 
crescent. Posterior frontals large, somewhat pointed in front, and 
rounded behind. Vertical and supra-ciliaries as usual in this genus ; 
occipitals rather small, rounded. Five upper labials, a sixth and seventh 
being confluent with the temporals ; the second is small, not entering 
the margin of the facial pit; the third enters the orbit. There is a 
