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Lepidosis — Rostral. — Touches 5 shields, the nasal sutures largest. 

 Tnternasal — Single. Proefrontals — Two, the suture between them 

 subequal to the prsefronto-frontal ; in contact with iuternasal, 

 nasal, loreal, prasocular and supraoculars. Frontal — Touches 6 

 shields, the supraocular sutures longest. Supraoculars — Length 

 and breadth rather less than frontal. Nasal — Semi-divided, 

 touching the 1st only of the supralabial series usually, the 

 2nd also sometimes. Loreal — Single, about as long as high. 

 Proeoculars — One. Postoculars — Three. Temporals — Two. elon- 

 gate, the lower touching the 6th, 7th and 8th supralabials. 

 Supralabials — 8, with the 3rd and 4th touching the eye, or 9 with 

 4th and 5th touching the eye. Infralabials—7 , the 0th. 0th and 

 7th normally touching the posterior sublinguals. 7th largest and 

 touching 3 scales behind. Sublinguals— Two pairs, the posterior 

 rather the larger. Costals— Two headslengths behind head 11', 

 midbody 19, two headslengths before vent 17. Where the rows 

 reduce from 19 to 17 the 1th row above the ventrals is absorbed 

 into the one above or below. (This step usually well behind mid- 

 body sometimes occurs at midbody or even slightly before this) ; 

 keels distinct except in the last two rows in midbody where they 

 are absent ; apical pits wanting. Ventrals— 139 to 149 in Ban- 

 galore specimens, 145 to 157 in Fyzabad (Boulenger 129 to 151). 

 Aval— Divided. Subcaudals — Divided, 63 to 82 (Boulen-er 55 to 

 85). 



Anomalies. — I have twice seen the internasal partially divided 

 posteriorly in Indian specimens. 1 have twice seen 3 prefrontals 

 in a transverse series, the median rather the smallest. Once there 

 were but 2 postoculars on one side. Once the last ventral was 

 divided and once the 35th, 36th and 37th ventrals were divided. 

 In one example there were only 7 supralabials, the 3rd and 4th 

 touching the eye. 



Dentition* — Maxillary — 19 to 21, gradually but progressively 

 increasing in size posteriorly with no gap. Palatine — 11. sub- 

 equal, and about the same size as the median maxillary. Pterygoid- 

 17 to 18, subequal, and about the same size as palatine. Mandi- 



From 2 Fyzabad skulls. 



