48, LYCODON. 851 



the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal 

 elongate, not entering the eye, forming a suture with the inter- 

 nasal ; one praeocular ; two postoculars ; temporals small, 1+2 or 

 2 + 3 ; nine or ten upper labials, tliird, fourth, and fifth entering the 

 eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 

 rows. Ventrals 167-1«3, not angulate laterally ; anal divided ; sub- 

 caudals 52-68 pairs. 13rown above, each scale with two white dots, 

 or short longitudinal lines ; labials white ; iisually a white collar ; 

 lower surfaces uniform white. 



Total length 850 millira. ; tail GO. 



N.E. and 8. India and Burma. 



a. 2 (V. 180 ; C. ?). Calcutta. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 



b. c? (V. 167 ; C. 63). Anamallavs. Cul. Jieddome [C.l 



c. Hgr. (V 172; C. 50). Malabar. ' Col. Beddome fC. 1. 

 «^-e. 2 (V. 18:.}; C..?)&hgr. India. Gen. llardwicke flM. 



(V. 175 ; C. 52). ^ ^ 



f-ff: c? (V. 1G9 ; C. 01) & hgr. India. 

 (V. 180 ; C. 58). 



3. Lycodon tessellatus. 



Lycodon tessellatum, Jan, Elenco, p. 06 (1803), and Icon. Gen. 36, 

 pi. iv. fig. 2 (1870). 



Snout moderately depressed ; eye rather small. Eostral broader 

 than deep, just visible from above: internasals much shorter than 

 the pra;frontals ; frontal nearly as long as its distance from the end 

 of the snout, slightly shorter than the parietals ; loreal elongate, 

 not entering the eye, forming a sutnre Avith the internasal ; one 

 prce- and two postoculars : temporals small, scale-like, 2 + 8 ; nine 

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

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer 

 than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Anal divided. 

 Subcaudals in two rows. Above with three series of alternating 

 black spots ; ventrals and subcaudals brown, edged with whitish. 



Manilla, Philippines. 



4. Lycodon anamallensis. (Plate XXIV. fig. 1.) 



Lvcodon ananiallensis, Gilntli. liept. lirit. Ind. p. 318 (1804) ; 

 ^ Bovleny. Faun. Ind., liept. p. 293 (1800). 



Snout depressed, subspatulate in the adult ; eye rather large 

 in the half-grown, rather small in the adult. Rostral much broader 

 than deep, just visible from above ; internasals much shorter than the 

 pra^froritals ; frontal once and a half to once and two thirds as lono- 

 as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, sliijhtlv 

 shorter than the parietals : two loreals, the anterior forming a 

 suture with the interna--al ; one prseocular, in contact with the 



