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/3. Half-grown : bad state. China. Presented by J. C. Reeves, 



Esq. 

 y. Half-grown. China. Presented by Mr. Bennett. 

 h. Young. China. 



« . Young. Borneo. Presented by Captain Sir Edward Belcher. 

 r\, Q. Adult. India. 

 £. Adult : bad state. India. 



i. Adult. India. Presented by W. Masters, Esq. 

 k, X. Adult and half-grown. India. Presented by W. Masters, 



Esq. 

 /x. Half-grown. India. 



v. Adult. ? 



|. Adult. India. 

 o. Adult. India. 

 ir. Adult. India. From the Haslar Collection. 



p. Adult. ? From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



o\ Half-grown. India. 



r. Half-grown. India. Presented by Sir J. MacGrigor. 



v. Half-grown. India. 



9. Tropidonotus subminiatus. 



Tropidonotus subminiatus, Reimvardt; Bote, Isis, 182/, 

 p. 535; Schley. Ess. ii. p. 313. Rhahdophis subminiatus, Fitz. 

 Syst. Rept. p. 2/. Amphiesma subminiatum, Dum. fy Bibr. vii. 

 p. 734. Tropidonotus junceus, Cantor, Catal. of Malayan Rept. 

 p. 93. 



Scales in nineteen rows ; upper labials eight (seven), the third, 

 fourth and fifth touching the eye. Above brown or greenish, 

 with small, irregular, black spots ; neck with a large black 

 blotch, behind with a white or yellow collar, both disappearing 

 in some adult specimens ; a black streak under the eye along 

 the meeting margins of the fifth and sixth upper labials ; some- 

 times with two whitish longitudinal lines, like T. stolatus ; abdo- 

 men yellowish white, with two punctated lines on the side. 



a, b. Adult. Java. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



c. Adult : tail injured. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



d. Adult: tail injured. Java. From Mr. Brandt's Collection. 

 e-h. Adult : not good state. Java. From Mr. Argent's Col- 

 lection. 



i-l. Adult and half-grown. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. 



Bowring, Esq. 

 m. Young. Chikiang, China. From Mr. Fortune's Collection. 

 n. Adult. Tenasserim Coast. Presented by Dr. Packmann. 

 o. Adult : not good state. Sikkim. Presented by Dr. J. 



Hooker. 



