352 coludrid.t;. 



frontal; two postoculars ; temporals small, scale-like, 2 + 3; nine 

 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eyo ; four or five 

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

 longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 1 7 rows. Ventrals 

 189-202, obtusely angulate laterally ; anal undivided ; subcaudals 

 64-74 pairs. Brown above, with narrow white, black-edged cross 

 bands ; labials white, each with a brown spot ; lower parts uniform 

 white. 



Total length 510 millim. ; tail 95. 



8. India. 



a. Ilgr. (V. 202; C. 74). Anamalhys. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Type.) 

 />. 2 (V. 189; C. 64). Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



5. Lycodon aulicus. 



Russell, 2nd. Serp. ii. pis. xxxvii. & xxxix. (1801). 



Coluber aulicus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. i. p. 29, pi, xii. fig. 2 (1754), 



and S. N. i. p. 381 (1766). 

 Lycodon aulicus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. ool ; Gilnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. 

 ■'p. 316 (1864), and Zool. Rec. 1870, p. 7o; Jan, Icon. Gen. 36, 



pi. iv. fig. 1 (1870) ; Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 199 (1876) ; 



Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 383 (1881) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 



p. 294 (1890). 



capucinus, Boie, I. c. 



unicolor, Boie, I. c. 



hebe, Sckleff. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 106, pi. iv. figs. 1-6 (1837). 



aulicus, part., Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. (58 (1847) ; Dum. Sf 



Bihr. vii. p. 369 (1854) ; Gunth. Cat. p. 201 (1858). 

 Tvtleria hypsirhinoides, Theoh. Cat. Rept. As. Sue. Mus. p. 6tj 

 '(1868). 



Snout much depressed, with swollen lips, spatulate in the adult ; 

 eye rather small. Rostral much broader than deep, just visible 

 from above ; iuternasals much shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal 

 once and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, usually 

 shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter thau 

 the parietals ; loreal elongate, not enteriug the eye, extensively in 

 contact with the interuasal ; one praeocular, usually in contact with 

 the frontal; two (rarely three) postoculars ; temporals small, 2 -j- 3 

 or3-|-3; nine upper labials, third, fourth, and fitth entering the 

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

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

 17 rows. Yentrals 178-224, obtusely angulate laterally ; nasal 

 divided (rarely entire) ; subcaudals 56-80 pairs. Brown above, 

 uniform or with whitish markings ; upper lip white, uniform or 

 spotted with brown ; lower parts uniform white. 



Total length 510 millim. ; tail 110. 



India and Ceylon, Himalayas, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Philippines, Celebes, Flores, Timor. 

 Introduced in the Mascarene Islands. 



