60. COLUBER. 3a 
body and on the tail. Ventrals 220-265 ; anal entire; subcaudals 
75-94, Young pale brown above, with black cross bands, each 
enclosing four to six white ocelli; adult darker brown, with trans- 
verse series of black squarish spots, or with more or less distinct 
traces of the livery of the young ; a vertical black streak below the 
eye and an oblique one behind the eye; some specimens have a 
white black-edged collar, others two black longitudinal streaks on 
the head. Lower parts yellowish, with or without a few small 
black spots; sometimes with a more or less distinct festooned 
marking on each side. 
Total length 1260 millim.; tail 250. 
India and Ceylon. 
a. & (Sc. 27; V. 228; Madras. Sir W. Elliot [P.]. 
C. 94). 
b-d. 2 (Se. 25; V. 242; Matheran. Dr. Leith [P.]. 
C. 85) & yg. (Se. 20, 
25; WV. 232, 228; C 
90, 78) 
ef. 2 (Se. 25, 25; V. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
945, 265; C. 85, ?). 
g-h. Yg. (Se. 25,25; V.  Anamallays, Col. Beddome [C.). 
236, 247; C.-94, 75). (Types of C. malabaricus.) 
a ae: (Se. 27; V. 226; Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
. 80). 
k. 9 (Sa 25; V. 261; Peermad, Travan- H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 
Cee0)” : core. (eal: 
l. Her. (Sc. 27; V.231; Ceylon. R. Templeton, Esq. 
C. 81). [P.]. (Type of CG 
bistrigatus.) 
. ¢. (Se. 27; V. 2385; Ceylon. 
Q 
27, 27, 2 
925, 231, 233, 220; C 
84, 94, 80, 82, 2) 
9: Coluber triaspis. 
Coluber triaspis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1866, p. 128, and Proc. Am. 
Philos. Soc, xxii. 1885, p. 175; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 115 
(1894). 
Pityophis intermedius, Boettg. Ber. Offend. Ver. Nat. 23-24, p. 148 
(1883). 
Coluber mutabilis, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 175. 
Natrix mutabilis, Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 32, 1887, p. 71. 
triaspis, Cope, l. ¢. 
Scotophis mutabilis, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 680, pl. xlvi. 
fiz. 2 (1888). 
Rostral nearly as deep as broad, visible from above ; internasals 
broader than long, much shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal once 
and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of 
the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep; one 
preocular, sometimes in contact with the frontal; two postoculars ; 
temporals 2 or 3+3 or 4; eight (rarely nine) upper labials, fourth 
