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externally with greyish fuscous, hind tarsal joints faintly 

 spotted. 



Type, ? (70095) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. Japan {Pryer, 1886). Unique. 



A small and very distinct species, of which, unfortunately, 

 I have only a single female. 



[To be continued.] 



LIII. — Description of a new Snake of the Genus Ablabes 

 from Burma. By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. 



Ablabes Hamptoni. 



Snout short, convex, profile curved from the frontal region 

 to the lip; eye three fourths the length of the snout; rostral 

 once and a half as broad as deep, just visible from above ; 

 nasal divided ; internasals a little longer than broad, a little 

 shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal once and two thirds as 

 long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the 

 snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal small, longer than 

 deep; a large prseocular, with a second very small shield 

 below it; two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2; eight upper 

 labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are much 

 longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 15 rows. Ven- 

 trals 194 ; anal undivided ; subcaudals 76. Uniform greenish 

 grey above (in spirit), white beneath and on the upper lip. 



Total length 1050 millim. ; tail 220. 



This species, which is closely allied to A. Dorice, Blgr., 

 differing in the broader rostral shield, was discovered by 

 Mr. Herbert Hampton at Magok, on the Irawaddi, about 

 12 miles north of Mandalay. Together with the snake 

 which I have the pleasure of naming, Mr. Hampton has 

 presented to the British Museum examples of the following 

 reptiles obtained by him at the same place, which are inter- 

 esting from the point of view of the geographical distri- 

 bution : — Oymnodactylus khasiensis } Jerdon; Trirhinopholis 

 nuchalis, Blgr. ; Lycodon fasciatus, And. ; Simotes violaceus, 

 var. multifasciatus f Jan ; Naia tripudians, var. cceca, Grmel. 



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