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or short transverse bands, along each side of the back ; upper labials 

 yellowish with black sutures ; a yellow, black-edged, oblique streak 

 from the eye to the gaj>e ; a yellow band across the nape, behind 

 the parietals ; all these markings becoming indistinct with age ; 

 belly white, uniform, or closely dotted with brown on the sides. 



Total length 660 millim. ; tail 190. 



S.W. India. 



a. Yg. (V, 142 ; C. 68). Nilgherries. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Type.) 



b, c-f. 2 (V. 144 ; C.'65) Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 &yg.(V.140,141,142, 



137 ; C. 74, 66, 60, ?). 



ff-i. 2 (V. 144 ; C. ?) & Anamallays, 4700 feet. W. Davison, Esq. 



yg. (V. 143, 131 ; C. [P.]. 



75, ?). 



k. 5 (V. 143; C. 74). Peermade, Travancore. II. S. Ferguson, 



Esq. [P.]. 



l~m. S (V. 150, 145 ; C. S. India. Col. Beddome [P.]. 



?, 75). 



58. Tropidonotus stolatus. 



Rtissell, Ind. Serp. i. pi. x (1796), & pis. xv.b. & Jtix, (1801). 



Coluber stolatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 379 (1766) ; Baud. Rept. vii. 

 p. 161 (1803). 



Elaps bilineatus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 299 (1801). 



Coluber biliueatus, Daud. t. c. p. 165. 



Tropidonotus stolatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 535 ; Schler/. Phys. Serp. 

 ii. p. 317 (1887) ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 90 (1847) ; Giinth. 

 Cat. p. 68 (1858) ; Pe:ers, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1861, p. 686 ; Giinth. 

 Rept. Brit. Lid. p. 266 (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Lnd. p. 177 

 (1876) ; Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yuntian, p. 816 (1879) ; Murray, 

 Zool. Sind, p. 379 (1884) ; Boetty. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 1888, 

 p. 79 ; Boulen;/. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 348, fig. (1890). 



Amphiesma stolatum, Dmn. 4'- Bibr. \ii. p. 727 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. 

 Zool. A7i. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 233. 



? Tropidonotus ruficeps, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 444. 



Eye moderate. Rostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals much narrowed anteriorly, as long as broad or a 

 little longer, nearly as long as the praefrontals ; frontal once and 

 two thirds to twdce as long as broad, longer than its distance from 

 the end of the snout, as long as the parietals : loreal as long as deep 

 or deeper ; one proc- and three postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1 or 1 + 2 ; 

 eight upper labials normally, third, fourth, and fifth entering the 

 eye : five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, 

 strongly keeled, outer row smooth. Yentrals 120-161 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 50-89. Greenish or brownish olive, with 

 more or less distinct black spots or reticulated cross bars intersected 

 by two yeUow longitudinal bands, which are best marked posteriorly ; 

 pra3- and postoculars yellowish ; lower surfaces white, usually with 

 a black spot on each side of each ventral. 



