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and sixth forming the lower edge of orbit. Above and beneath 

 purple, minutely marbled with brown and irregularly freckled 

 with black ; a dark brown streak from the muzzle through the 

 eye to the angle of mouth. 



Ventral plates strongly keeled ; one elongate loreal ; anal bifid. 

 Scales of the medial row rather larger ; crown of head without 

 cross bands, purple, symmetrically marbled with brown. — In the 

 stomach of one specimen I found a well-preserved Draco hcema- 

 topogon ; and in two others, the remainder of some not determi- 

 nable Saurians. 



a. Adult. Bengal. Presented by General Hardwicke. Original 



specimen of Dr. Gray's figure. 



b. Adult. Philippines. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



c. Adult. Philippines. From Mr. Cuming's Collection, 

 c?, e. Adult. Borneo. From Mr. Lowe's Collection. 



/. Adult. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



3. Chrysopelea ornata. 



Seha, i. 94. 7, ii. 7- 1, 56. 1, and 61. 2; Scheuchzer,t. 606. f. C; 

 Russell, i. t. 2. Coluber ornatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. iii. p. 477. 

 Coluber ibiboca, Latr. Rept. iv. p. 131 ; Daud. Rept. vi, p. 327. 

 Natrix ornata, Merr. Tent. p. 109. Tyria ornata, Fitz. Neue 

 Class. Rept. p. 60. Chrysopelea ornata and C. paradisi, Boie, 

 Isis, 1827, pp. 546, 547 ; Wagl. Amph. p. 188. Dendrophis or- 

 nata, Schleg. Ess. pi. 9. f. 8-1 ; Filippi, Catal. Serp. Mus. Pav. 

 Chrysopelea ornata, Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 1042. 



Scales smooth, in seventeen rows ; black ; crown with some 

 vellow cross bands ; body regularly ornamented with many small 

 yellow spots, the distribution of which is hable to great variation. 



Var. A. Markings obsolete j coloration uniform. 

 a. Adult. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



Var. B. Yellow colour predominant : each scale yellow, with a 

 keel-hke black streak along its centre, forming together fine lon- 

 gitudinal lines. 



b-d. Adult and half-grown. India. Presented by General 



Hardwicke. 

 e,f. Adult and half-grown : bad state. India. Old Collection. 

 g. Adult : not good state. India. Presented by W. C. Masters, 



Esq. 

 h. Large specimen. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 

 i. Half-grown : mutilated. India. Presented by W. C. Masters, 



Esq. 



