92. sIMOTES. Do 
transverse blackish bars ; head with well-marked dark markings, 
viz. a crescentic band anteriorly, passing through the eyes, and a 
chevron-shaped band behind, the apex on the frontal; a large 
blackish nuchal spot, partly divided by the light vertebral line; 
lower surfaces yellowish, with or without square black spots; tail 
immaculate. 
Total length 380 millim.; tail 30. 
Burma. 
A. Belly with square black spots. 
a. 2 (V. 180; C. 385). Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. 
[C.]. (Type.) 
B. Belly unspotted. 
a. 9 (V. 174; C. 35). Minhla. M. L. Fea [C.]. P 
GO (VMAS. 84): Near Toungoo. EK. W. Oates, Esq. 
eaih 
€. do (VoI7E;. Co 42). Thayetmyo. E. Watson, Ksq. 
20. Simotes cruentatus. (Pare X. fig. 1.) 
Simotes cruentatus, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) i. 1868, p. 417; 
Theob. Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 1868, p. 41; Stoliezka, Proc. As. Soc. 
Beng. 1872, p. 145; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 615 (1890). 
Nasal divided; portion of rostral seen from above shorter than 
its distance from the frontal; suture between the internasals much 
shorter than that between the prefrontals ; frontal as long as its 
distance from the end of the snout, slightly shorter than the 
parietals ; loreal longer than deep, but usually shorter than in the 
preceding species; preocular single; two postoculars ; temporals 
1+2; eight (rarely seven) upper labials, fourth and fifth (or third 
and fourth) entering the eye; four or five lower labials in contact 
with the anterior chin-shields; posterior chin-shields about two 
thirds the length of the anterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 
148-173; anal divided; subcaudals 27-37. Brown above, with 
four more or less distinct darker longitudinal lines; symmetrical 
dark markings on head broken up, rather indistinct in the adult, an 
oblique spot below the eye and a large patch on the occiput being 
distinguishable ; lower surfaces yellowish (coral-red in life) with 
square black spots, at least on the posterior third of the belly; a 
large black spot at the base of the tail, and sometimes a second near 
the tip. 
Total length 350 millim. ; tail 45. 
Pegu. 
a-d. 3(V. 164, 165, 163, Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. 
164 ; C. 33, 37, 37,36) [C.]. (Types.) 
& 2 (V. 167; C. 30). 
e. Yg. (V. 148; C. 36). Pegu. es Theobald, Esq. 
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