54. ZAMENIS. 405 



Snout obtuse, curved and projecting. Rostral large, broader tban 

 deep, the portion visible from above more than half its distance from 

 the frontal ; internasals as long as the pnefrontals ; frontal ante- 

 riorly nuK-li broader than the supraocular, once and a quarter to 

 once and a half as long as broad, nearly as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, or as the parictals ; lureal as long aa 

 deep or longer than deep; one pr^ocular, in contact with the 

 frontal, usually with a small subocular below it : two or three post- 

 oculars ; temporals 2 + 1! or 2 + 3; eight upper labials, fourth and 

 fifth entering tlie eye ; four or tive lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields nearly as long as the 

 anterior, separated from each other by two or three series of scales. 

 Scales smooth, in 2i or 23 rows. Ventrals ld7-22o; anal divided ; 

 suLcaudals 73-92. Yellowish or brownish olive above, with narrow 

 white, brown, and black variegated cross bands on the anterior half 

 of the body ; these bands may entirely disappear in the adult ; lower 

 parts uniform yellowish. 



Total length lOOU millim. ; tail 220. 



Madras Presidency, Northern India, Province Wellesley (Malay 

 Peninsula). 



rt. Hgr. (V. 200; C. ?). Yizagapatam District. Dr. P. Kussell. 



6. Hgr. (V.PJ7; C. 68). Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



[P.]. 



c. Yg. (Y. 209 ; C. 92). Madras. Sir \V. Elliot [P.]. 



(I. Yg. (Y. 212; C. 82). Penares. Dr. Sayer [P.j. 



e. Yg. (Y. 225; C. 77). Gwalior. C Maries, Esq. [E.]. 



f-ff. (S (Y. 223,211; C. India. Zoological Society."* 



87, :-). 



h. Yg. (Y. 198; C. 87). Prov. Wellesley. Dr. Cantor. 



23. Zamenis ravergieri. 



Coluber ravergieri, Menetr. Cat. liaia, p. 69 (1832). 



maculatus {nu7i Merr), Uwiyubsky, Xat. Hist. Huss., A>njj/iib. 



p. 26 {1S32}.— Teste fStrauch. 

 Zamenis caudtelineatus, Gilnth. Cat. p. 104 (1858) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 



23, pi. iii. (1867). 

 Periops caudieliueatus, Jan, in Jbe Filipjn, Viayr/. Fers. p. 355 



(1865). 

 Zamenis ravergieri, Strauch, Schlany. liuss. F. p. 127 (1873) ; Blanf. 



Zool. F. Fers. p. 417 (1876), and 2nd I'ark. Miss., lieiit. p. 's2 



(1878). 



fedtschenkoi, Strauch, I. c. p. 135, pi. iv. 



ravererieri, var. fedtscheakoi, Bottty. Zool. Jahrb. iii. 1888, 



p. 927. ^ 



Snout feebly projecting, obtuse, llostral once and one third to 

 once and a half as broad as deep, the portion visible from above 

 measuring one third or one fourth its distance from the frontal ; 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than the praefroutals ; 

 frontal anteriorly considerably broader than the supraocular, once 

 and one fourth to once and a half as long as broad, as long as or u 



