366 COLUBKIDjE. 



fifth or fifth and sixth entering the eye ; 5 lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little shorter than the 

 posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 177-188; anal usually 

 entire; subcaudals 82-138. Pale greyish or yellowish above, with 

 black dots or four longitudinal brown bauds which are usually 

 edged with black, the outer passing through the eyes ; lower parts 

 white, uniform or spotted or marked with grey or olive in the 

 middle, with or without a dark lateral line or series of dots. 



Total length 3 feet 3 inches ; tail 1 foot. 



Hub. Sind, Eajputaua, Cutch, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Persia, 

 and east coast of Arabia. 



455. PsammopMs condanarus. 



Russell, 2nd. Serp. i, pi. xxvii. 



Coluber condanarus, Merr. Tent. p. 107. 



Leptophis ? bellii, Jerdon, J. A. S. B. xxii, 1853, p. 529. 



Psammophis condanarus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiii, 1854, p. 293 ; 



Giinth. Rept. B. I. p. 291 ; Moliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, 



p. 196, and xl, 1871, pt. 2, p. 438; Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 182; 



Stoliczka, P. A. S. B. 1872, p. 83 ; Theob. Cat. p. 187 ; Murray, 



Zool. Sind, p. 382. 



Psammophis indicus, Beddome, Madras Jown. Med. Sc. 1863. 

 Phayrea isabellina, Theob. Cat. Kept. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 51. 

 Psammophis sibilans, var. quadrilineata, Jan, Icon. Ophid. 34, pi. iii, 



fig. 1. 



Rostral as deep as broad, visible from above ; nasal divided or 

 semidivided ; internasals rather more than half the length of the 

 praefrontals ; frontal very narrow, as long as or longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; loreal 

 about twice as long as deep ; prsocular single, not extending to 

 the frontal; two postoculars ; temporals 1+2 or 1 + 3, rarely 

 2+3; upper labials 8, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; 4 lower 

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

 as the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 156-182 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 75-90. Pale olive-brown, with two pairs of 

 more or less distinct dark bands each two scales wide ; these bands, 

 the lower of which passes through the eye, often black-edged ; 

 upper lip and lower parts uniform yellowish, with a dark line along 

 each side of the ventrals and subcaudals. 



Total length 3 feet ; tail 9 inches. 



Hub. This species has hitherto only been recorded from the 

 Punjab, Cutch, the North-West Provinces, Simla, Bengal, the 

 Kurnool district, and Pegu. 



456. Psammophis longifrons. 



Rostral as deep as broad, visible from above ; nostril between 

 the anterior and two superposed posterior nasals ; internasals 



