48. LYCODON. 355 



7. Lycodon travancoricus. (Plate XXIV. fig. 3.) 



Cercaspis travancoricus, Beddome, Madras Monthly Jaitrn. Med. Sc. 



1870. 

 Lycodou travancoricus, Bouleny. Faun, hid., Rept. p. 293 (1890). 



Snout much depressed, witli swollen lips, subspatulate ; eyo 

 rather small, liostral much broader than long, hardly visible from 

 above ; internasals much shorter than the pra3frontals ; 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 or a little longer, a little 

 shorter than the parietals ; lorcal elongate, rarely entering the eye, 

 not touching the internasal ; one praeocular, usually in contact 

 with the frontal ; two postoculars ; temporals small, scale-like, 

 2 + 3 or 3 + 3 ; nine upper labials, third, 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. 

 Yentrals 175-j!02, obtusely angulate laterally; anal undivided; 

 subcaudals usually in two rows, sometimes single *, 5(J-7G. 

 Coloration very similar to that of L. striatus, viz., dark brown or 

 black above, with white cross bands and white lineolations on tho 

 sides, and uniform white below; but the upper lip is brown, or 

 white spotted with brown. 



Total lengtli GOU millim. ; tail 125. 



Soutliern India, as far north as the Bombay Ghats. 



u. 2 (V. 178; C. GG). Travancore Hills, Col. I5eddome [CI. 



5000 ft. (Type.) 



h~c. 5 (V. 184 ; C. G8) & Travancore. Col. Beddomo [C.l. 



hgr. (V. 181 ; C. GOj. 

 d. 2 (V. 181 ; C. 56). Trevandrum, Travan- 11. 8. Ferguson, Esq. 



core. [P.]. 



e^i\ d (V. 194 ; C. 75) & Anamallays, 4700 ft. Col. Beddome [CI. 



ligr. (V. 190, 199, 189, 



190; C. 70, 71, G9, G8). 

 A-, l-m. 2 (V. 185 ; C 04) Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.l. 



&bgr. (V. 190,200; C 



72, 71). 

 n-p. $ (V. 201 ; C GO) & Coonoor, Nilgberries, Col. Beddome [C.l. 



hgr. (V. 190, 190 ; C 7G, 5900 ft. 



07). 

 (j-r. Hgr. (V. 202, 189; C. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.l. 



08, G9). 

 s-t. Hgr. (V. 186 ; C 72) Matherau, Bombay. Br. Leith [P.]. 



&yg. (V. 175; C 74). 



* Out of 19 specimens examined, 14 have ail the subcaudals paired ; three 

 (/(, d, g) have them in part single (50 ^^ 1 ; 4^1; ^ 44 ^) ; and two (a, c) 

 have them all single. Col. Beddome mentions another specimen with 

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