350 



COLUBEIDJ^. 



Kostral much broader than deep, just visible from above; intcr- 

 nasals much shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal once and one 

 third to once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, as long as the parictals or a little shorter : 

 loreal elongate, not entering the eye, forming a suture with the 

 internasal ; two postoculars : temporals small, 1 +2, 2 + 2, or 2 + 3 ; 

 eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; four 

 or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are usually longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. 

 Ventrals 153-178, not angulate ; anal divided ; subcaudals 42-fjG 

 pairs. Dark brown or black above, with white transverse spots or 

 cross bands, which are widely separated anteriorly ; sides lineolated 

 with white, with a black spot corresponding to each white cross 

 hand ; upper lip and lower parts uniform white. 



Total length 430 millim. ; tail 75. 



India ; Transcaspia. 



a. S (V. 177 ; 0. 66). 



b. 2 (V. 178 ; C. 44). 



e-e. S fV. 162, 172; C. 



4;i, 47)& 5 (V. 106; 

 C. 47). 

 /. $ (V. 175; C.51). 



g. J (V. loo ; C. 48). 

 h-i, k-l, m, n. S (V. 167, 



160; C. 51, 43), 2 (V. 



164; C.45),hoT.(V. 177; 



C. 44), & vg^ (V. 168, 



160; C. 50/45). 

 o-q. S (V. 164; C. 50), 



hgr. (V. 173; C. 42), & 



yg. (V. 160 ; 0. 44). 

 r-s. <S (V. 168, 153 ; C. 62, 



54). 



Puli Hatun, Trans- M. C. f]ylandt [C.]. 



caspia. 

 Kurrachee. 



Russelconda. 



Madras. 



Wynad. 

 Anamallays. 



S. India. 



Indi 



Kurrachee Museum 



[E.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 



J. E. Boileau, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.J. 



Col. Beddome [C.]. 



2. Lycodon jara. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. i. pi. xiv. (1790). 



Coluber jara, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 525 (1802). 



bipunctatus, Cantor, Froc. Zool. !Soc. 1839, p. 52. 



Lycodon jara, Schle(/. F/ii/s. Serp. ii. p. 110 (1837) ; Peters, Man. 

 Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 236; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Sac. Beny. si. 1871, 

 p. 442 ; Boukny. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 292 ( 1890). 



Leptorhytaon jara, Giinth. C'«<. p. '20o {ISoS), and Bepf. Brit Ind. 

 p. 321 (18(^4). 



Lycophidiou bipunctatum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 403. 



Snout much depressed ; eye rather small. liostral much broader 

 than deep, just visible from above ; intefuasals much shorter than 

 the pnefrontals ; .frontal once and one third to once and a half as 

 long as broad, as long as or a little shorter than its distance from 



