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enlarged ; the ultimate not or barely enlarged. Ventrals. — Not 

 angul.ite : 153 to 178 (Boulenger) one of my Fyzabad examples L79, 

 one in the Indian Museum from Malakand 179, another from the 

 Perso-Baluch Frontier 196. Stoliczka's specimen from below Simla 

 with 182 I consider an aulicus. Anal — Divided. Subcaudals — 

 Divided, 42 to 66 (Boulenger). In two Ceylon specimens I count 35 

 and 39. Russell's two specimens 40 and 41, the latter from 

 Hyderabad Deccan. 



Anomalies. — In a specimen in the Indian Mu-eum from Ma'akand 

 the loreal is dual on both sides, the anterior small shield touching the 

 internasal and make these shields appear as four. The nasals occasion- 

 ally touch the 1st only of the supralabial series. The anterior tem- 

 poral is rarely a single shield. The supra'abials are rarely 7 with the 

 3rd and 4th touching the eye, 8 with the 4th and 5th touching the 

 eye, or 9 with the 3rd, 4th and 5th touching the eye. I have found 

 the anal entire in one Ceylon specimen, and in Russell's Plate 

 (XXVI) this shield is shown entire. 



Dentition. — Very similar to that of aulicus. MariUa. — This supports 

 an anterior and a posterior set separated by a considerable edentulous 

 interval. The anterior has 2 (3?) progressively increasing teeth, fol- 

 lowed by two large subequal teeth as in aulicus. The posterior set 

 has 4 subequal small teeth followed by two larj>e subequal ones. 



Palato-pter/jgoid. — The palatine bone supports 11 teeth, the ptery- 

 goid I cannot give, believing my only skull to be imperfect. Both 

 sets are small and subequal. Mandibular. — Anteriorly 3 progres- 

 sively increasing small teeth followed by two subequal large ones, 

 then a short gap sufficient to accommodate one tooth, followed by 13 

 small subequal teeth. 



In this species the maxilla is distinctly shorter than in aulicus, 

 supporting 4 small teeth in the poste/ior set instead of 8 to 10. Tie 

 two enlarged posterior teeth are situated beneath the middle of the 

 eye, and at a point well in advance of the optic foramen in the cleaned 

 skull. In aulicus these two large teeth are exactly opposite the optic 

 foramen, and beneath the back of the eye. In the mandible there are 

 fewer teeth (13; than in aulicus (16 to 20.) 



(To be continued). 



