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/3. Half-grown : bad state. China. Presented by J. C. Reeves, 



Esq. 

 y. Half-grown. China. Presented by Mr. Bennett. 

 h. Young. China. 



€. Young. Borneo. Presented by Captain Sir Edward Belcher. 

 r], 6. Adult. India. 

 C' Adult : bad state. India, 

 t. Adult. India. Presented by W. Masters, Esq. 

 K, X. Adult and half-grown. India. Presented by W. Masters, 



Esq. 

 /x. Half-grown. India. 



V. Adult. ? 



|. Adult. India, 

 o. Adult. India, 

 TT. Adult. India. From the Haslar Collection. 



p. Adult. ? From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



(T. Half-grown. India. 



r. Half-grown. India. Presented by Sir J. MacGrigor. 



V. Half-grown. India. 



9. Tropidonotus subminiatus. 



Tropidonotus subminiatus, Reinwardt ; Bote, Isis, 1827, 

 p. 535 ; Schley. Ess. ii. p. 313. Rhabdophis subminiatus, Fitz. 

 Syst. Rept. p. 2/. Amphiesma subminiatum, Dum. 8f Bibr. vii. 

 p. 734. Tropidonotus junceus, Cantor, Catal. of Malayan Rept. 

 p. 93. 



Scales in nineteen rows ; upper labials eight (seven), the third, 

 fourth and fifth touching the eye. Above brown or greenish, 

 with small, irregular, black spots ; neck with a large black 

 blotch, behind with a white or yellow collar, both disappearing 

 in some adult specimens ; a black streak under the eye along 

 the meeting margins of the fifth and sixth upper labials ; some- 

 times with two whitish longitudinal lines, like T. stolatus ; abdo- 

 men yellowish white, with two punctated lines on the side. 



a, b. Adult. Java. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



c. Adult : tail injured. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



d. Adult : tail injured. Java. From Mr. Brandt's Collection. 

 e-h. Adult : not good state. Java. From Mr. Argent's Col- 

 lection. 



i-l. Adult and half-grown. Hong Kong, Presented by J. C. 



Bowring, Esq. 

 m. Young. Chikiang, China. From Mr. Fortune's Collection. 

 n. Adult. Tenasserim Coast. Presented by Dr. Packmann. 

 0. Adult : not good state. Sikkim. Presented by Dr. J. 



Hooker. 



