232 COLTJBRTD.'E. 



B, Above with black spots arranged quincuncially ; ventral shields 



edged with black. 



s. 2 (V. 141 ; C. 70). Cantou. Haslar Collectiou. 



t-n. 2 (V. 136, 135; C. ?, ?). Siani. M. MouLot [C.]. 



V. 2 (V. 138 ; C. ?). Camboja. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



w. d" (V. 130 ; C. 79). Pinaug. Dr. Cantor. 



X. Ilgv. d (V. 134 ; C. 75). Java. Dr. Horsfield. 



?/. Skull. Java. 



C. Above with black stripes, four on the nape, five on the body ; 



ventral shields edged with black. (T. melanozostus^ Boie.) 



z. 2 (V. 145; C.?). Borneo. 



a. Yg. (V. 141 ; C. 70). Java. 



33. Tropidonotus asperrinms. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) 



Tropidonotus quincunciatus, var., Gilnih. Cat. p. 66 (1858), and Rept. 



Brit. Lid. p. 261 (1864) ; F. Miill. Verh. nat. Ges. Basel,\m. 1887, 



p. 264. 



piscator, part., Boxdeng. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 349 (1890). 



asperrimus, Boulenq. Ann. ^ Maq. N. H. (6) vii. 1891, p. 281 ; 



F. Midi. Festschr. nai. Ges. Basel, 1892, p. 204. 



Very closely allied to T. piscator, but scales very strongly keeled, 

 the keels forming sharp, strongly raised, continuous lines along the 

 hinder part of the body and on the tail ; only the outer row of scales 

 smooth. Ventrals 130-146 ; subcaudals 64-95. Anterior half of 

 body pale olive or reddish, with two series of more or less distinct 

 alternating large roundish or rhomboidal, dark olive or brown, 

 black-edged spots, which are partly confluent on the vertebral line 

 and sometimes form a sinuous band ; posterior part of body uniform 

 dark olive, or olive with blackish spots arranged quincuncially ; two 

 oblique black lines, one below, the other behind the eye ; lower 

 parts uniform yellowish. 



Total length 820 millim. ; tail 210. 



Ceylon. 



a-b, c-d. 2 (V. 131 ; C. 64) Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. 



& vg. (V. 138, 137, 142 ; 



C. 90, 90, 80). 

 e. 2 (V. 141 ; C. 81). Near Candy. Capt. GasGoigne [P.]. 



/. Ilo'r. (V. 143 ; C. 83). Punduloya, 4000 ft. E.E.Green, Esq. [P.]. 

 (I. Yg. (V. 137 ; C. ?). Cevlon. ' Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



'h. Yg. rV. 131 ; C. 85). CeVlon. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



z. c? (V~133; C. 85). Ceylon. Zoological Society. 



h-l, m-n. 2 (V. 137, 146 ; Cevlon. 



C.'t, 8a); hgr. (V. 138; 



C.?), & yg. (V. 137; 



0.71). 



