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33. Coluber prasinus. 
Coluber prasinus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1854, p. 291; 
Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 834 (1890); W. Seluter, Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. Ix. 1891, p. 239. 
Gonyosoma gramineum, Giinth, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 294, pl. xxiii. 
fie. D (1864); Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit, Ind. p. 190 (1876) ; Anders. 
An. Zool, Res. Yunnan, p. 824 (1879). 
Rostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above; inter- 
nasals a little broader than long, shorter than the prefrontals ; 
frontal once and one fourth to once and one third as long as broad, 
as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 
parietals ; loreal square or longer than deep ; one preocular (some- 
times divided), usually in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars ; 
temporals 142 or 2+ 2; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth 
entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. 
Scales in 19 rows; dorsals feebly keeled in the adult, smooth in the 
young. Ventrals with a lateral keel, 198-206; anal divided 
(rarely entire) ; subcaudals 91-107. Uniform bright green above; 
upper lip and lower surfaces yellowish or greenish white. 
Total length 900 millim.; tail 230. 
Eastern Himalayas, Khasi Hills, Assam, Burma. 
a, Yg. (V. 203; C. 100). Khasi Hills (?). Dr. Griffith. 
(Type of G. gramineum.) 
6, ¢. S (V. 198; C. 107) Khasi Hills. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 
& her, (V. 200; C.?). [P.}. 
d. 9 (V. 198; C. 91). Toungyi, Shan States, Lieut. Blakeway [C.]. 
5000 ft. 
34. Coluber quadrivirgatus. 
Coluber quadrivirgatus, Bove, Isis, 1826, p. 209; Schleg. Phys. Serp. 
ii, p. 147, pl. v. figs. 15 & 16 (1887), and Faun. Japon. p. 84, pl. i. 
1838). 
vulneratus, Bove, 1. c. p. 212. 
Compsosoma quadrivirgatum, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 801 (1854), 
Elaphis quadrivirgatus, Giinth. Cat. p. 94 (1858); Jan, Icon. Gén. 
24, pl. 1. figs. 1-3 (1867) ; Hilgendorf, Sitz. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 
1880, p. 114. 
bilineatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 497. 
Eye rather large; rostral broader than deep, just visible from 
above ; internasals broader than long, shorter than the prefrontals ; 
frontal once and three fifths to twice as long as broad, longer than 
its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little shorter 
than the parietals ; loreal usually as long as deep, or a little deeper ; 
one preocular, usually with a subocular below it; two postoculars ; 
temporals 2+2 or 243; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 
entering the eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or longer than the 
posterior. Scales in 19 rows, feebly but distinctly keeled (some- 
