230 COLUBRTD^. 



31. Tropidonotus sancti-johannis. (Plate XV. fig, 1.) 



Tropidouotus quincunciatus, var., Giinth. Cat. p. G6 (1858), and 

 Rept. Brit. hid. p. 2(51 (1804) ; Blanf. Jotirn. As. Soc. Beng. 

 xxxix. 1870, p. 371 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 1873, 

 p. 432, pi. xxvi. fig. 1. 



sancti-johanuis, Boideng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 350 (1890). 



Very cloi^ly allied to T. piscator, but scales feebly keeled, some- 

 times nearly smooth, the two to four outer rows smooth ; frequently 

 fourth labial only entering the eye. Veutrals 134-158 ; subcaudals 

 80-98. Pale olive above, uniform or with black spots arranged 

 quincuncially, or vrith two series of whitish spots along the body ; 

 belly uniform yellowish. 



Total length 1100 milUm. ; tail 290. 



Should perhaps rank as a variety of T. piscator. 



Himalayas ; North-west and Central Provinces, India. 



a. Yg. (V. 158 ; C. 85). Cashmere. Sir O. B. St. John [C.J. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 

 [P.]. (Type.) 

 b-h. 6 (V. 140, 143, Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



143, 143 ; C. 98, 94, [P.]. 



9(% 86) & 5 (V. 153, 

 151, 154; C. 87, 80, 

 84). 

 i. § (V. 156; C.?). Kiihi, Himalavas. Messrs. v. Schlagin- 



tweit [C.]. 

 h. (S (V. 143 ; C. ?). Jamil, Himalayas. Messrs. v, Scblagin- 



tweit [C.]. 

 /. 2 (V. 151; C. 82). Darjeeliiig. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



tn. d (V. 141 ; C. 88). Chanda, Central W. T. Blauford, Esq. 



Provinces. [P-]* 



w. c? (V. 134; C. 88). Sharigh, near W.. T. Blauford, Esq. 



Harnai. [P.]. 



32. Tropidonotus piscator. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. i. pis. xx., xxviii., & xxxiii. (1796), and ii. pis. iii., 



v., xiv., & XV. a (1801). 

 Hydras piscator, Schneid. Hist. Amph. i. p. 247 (1799;. 



palustris, Schneid. I. c. p. 249. 



Coluber anostomosatiis, Daud. Rcpt. vii. p. 140 (180.3). 



■ umbratus, Daud. I. c. p. 144. 



braminus, Daud. I. c. p. 176. 



mortuarius, Daud. I. c. p. 187. 



dora, Daud. I. c. p. 191. 



Enhydris piscator, O/ce^i, Lehrh. Natiirg. iii. p. 233 (1816). 



Coluber bengalensis. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool, ii. pi. ixxxii. fig. 1 (1834). 



rectaugulus. Gray, I. c. iig. 2. 



Tropidonotus melanozostus, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 206. 



piscator, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 535. 



mortuarius, Boie, I. c. 



Coluber liippus, Reuss, 3Ius. Senckenh. i. 1834, p. 150, pi. ix. fig. 2. 



