292 COLUBEID^E. 



Synopsis of Iiidian, Ceylonese, and Burmese Species. 



A. Scales smooth, in 17 rows ; subcaudals usually in 



two rows. 



a. Ventrals not augulate ; snout not spatulate ; 



anal divided. 



a f . 8 upper labials L. striatus, p. 292. 



b'. 9 or 10 upper labials L. jam, p. 292. 



b. Ventrals laterally angulate. 



'. Two loreals ; snout not spatulate ; anal entire ; [p. 293. 



eye rather large L. anamallensis, 



b'. One loreal; snout broad, much depressed, 



spatulate. [p. 293. 



a". Anal entire L. travancoricus, 



b". Anal divided L. aulicus, p. 294. 



c'. No loreal L. atropurpurem, 



B. Scales keeled. [p. 294. 



a. Scales in 17 rows. [p. 295. 

 a'. Posterior chin-shields shorter than anterior . L. septentrionalis, 

 b'. Posterior chin-shields longer than anterior. . L.fasciatus, 



b. Scales in 19 rows. [p. 295. 

 a'. Subcaudals in two rows ; only scales of the 



9 dorsal rows keeled * L. yanimiei, p. 296. 



b'. Subcaudals single ; scales strongly keeled . . , cartau,p.296. 



347. Lycodon striatus. 



Russell, Lid. Serj). i, pi. xvi. 



Coluber striatus, Shaw, Zool. iii, p. 527. 



Lycodon striatus, Giinth. Kept. B. I. p. 318 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. 



xxxix, 1870, p. 200 ; Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 187 ; Theob. Cat. 



p. 199 ; Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 384. 



Snout much depressed, slightly projecting; eye rather small. 

 llostral much broader than long, just visible from above ; inter- 

 uasals much shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals or a 

 little shorter ; loreal elongate, not entering the eye ; one prseocular ; 

 two postoculars ; temporals small, 1 + 2 or 2 + 2 or 2+3; eight 

 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; 4 or 5 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 usually longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. 

 Yentrals 153-178, not augulate laterally ; anal divided; subcaudals 

 42-62, in two rows. Dark brown or black above, with white trans- 

 verse spots or cross-bands, which are widely separated anteriorly ; 

 sides lineolated \\ith white, with a black spot corresponding to each 

 white cross-band ; upper lip and lower surface uniform white. 



Total length 17 inches ; tail 3. 



Hab. From Siud, the Punjab, the North-Western Provinces, and 

 the hills below Simla to Southern India. 



348. Lycodon jara. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. i, pi. xiv. 

 Coluber jara, Shaw, Zool. iii, p. 525. 



