244 On a new Snake from Yunnan. 



XXVII. — Description of a new Snake from Yunnan. 

 By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 



Tropidonotus johannis. 



Eye rather small. Rostral not quite twice as broad as 

 deep, just visible from above ; internasals as long as broad, 

 nearly as long as the prefrontals, much narrowed in front; 

 frontal once and one-third to once and a half as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the end of the snout, much 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep or a little 

 longer than deep ; one or two pise- and three or four post- 

 oculars; temporals 2+1 or 2 + 2 ; eight upper labials, third, 

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

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

 than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, dorsals feebly or 

 faintly keeled, laterals smooth. Ventrals 165-170 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 85-89. Olive-brown above, with more 

 or less distinct darker and lighter spots, the latter forming a 

 lateral series or an ill-defined lateral streak ; a curved 

 yellowish streak may be present on each side of the nape; 

 sutures between the labials blackish ; ventrals and subcaudals 

 yellow, with the ends olive-grey and bearing large black spots 

 forming a lateral series. 



Total length 910 mm.; tail 210. 



Three specimens from Yunnan fu, received from the 

 Rev. John Graham. 



Allied to T. modestus, Gthr., and T. plearotcenia, Blgr. 



The three species may be distinguished by the following 

 characters : — 



Upper 



labials. Ventrals. Subcaudals. 



T. modestus 9 154-168 96-122 



T. johannis 8 165-170 85-89 



T. pleurotcenia 8 148 66 



XX VII I. — On some new Species and Subspecies of Birds 

 from Upper Burma. By Major H. H. Harington. 



During two months' leave spent in making a collecting-trip 

 in the Bhamo Hills, N.E. Burma, I was fortunate enough to 

 procure examples of many rare birds and their eggs, in- 

 cluding some Chinese species, which had not previously been 



