236 COLUBRID ®. 
Total length 480 millim. ; tail 65. 
Sonth-western India. 
a-b. $ (V.144; C.34)& Madras Presidency. T.C.Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 
Q (V. 152; ©. 30). 
ce. Her. 3 (V. 146; C. Madras Presidency. Col. Beddome [P.]. 
o4). 
d. 2 (V. 151; C. 33). Nilgherries, 7000 ft. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
e. Her. 9 (V. 154; C. Coonoor, Nilgherries, W. Davison, Esq. [P.]. 
29), 5900 ft. 
JF-g. gr. (V. 162; C.28) Nilgherries. KE. A. Minchin, Esq. 
& yg. (V. 147; C. 32). Beeip 
2. Oligodon travancoricus. (Prarn X. fig. 2.) 
Oligodon travancoricus, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. G85; 
Bouleng. Faun, Ind., Rept. p. 318 (1890). 
Nasal divided ; portion of rostral seen from above as long as or a 
little shorter than its distance from the frontal; suture between the 
internasals shorter than that between the preefrontals; frontal as 
long as or longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 
shorter than the parietals ; no loreal, the posterior nasal forming a 
suture with the preocular, or the prefrontal forming a suture with 
the second labial: preocular single; two postoculars ; temporals 
1+2 or 2+3; upper labials seven, third and fourth entering the eye, 
sixth excluded from the labial margin ; three lower labials in contact 
with the anterior chin-shields; posterior chin-shields two thirds 
the length of the anterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 145-151; 
anal divided; subcaudals 35-37. Greyish or pale brown above, 
with 25 to 33 black or dark brown, light-edged cross bands on the 
body, and five or six pairs of spots on the tail; three broad black, 
light-edged transverse bands ou the head, viz.,a frontal, an occipital, 
and a nuchal, connected or not longitudinally on the median line ; 
a small white spot may be present in the middle between the 
parietals. Lower surfaces white, with large square black spots. 
Total length 450 millim.; tail 65. IJ have examined a specimen 
belonging to the Trevandrum Museum, which measures 465 millim. ; 
tail 65. 
Travancore hills. 
a. Her. og (V. 145; Tinnevelly hills. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
C. 37). (Type.) 
b-c. go (V. 147, 146; High Range, Tra- H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 
C. 37, 35), vancore. [ea 
3. Oligodon affinis. 
Oligodon affinis, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) ix. 1862, p. 58, 
and Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 209, pl. xix. fig. B (1864); Bouleng. Faun. 
Ind., Rept. p. 318 (1890). 
Nasal divided ; portion of rostral seen from above half as long 
