58 Dr. A. Giinther on new Species of Snakes. 
Oligodon affinis. 
Habit stout. Scales in 17 rows; loreal none, united with 
post-frontal. Head with the markings usually found in the 
genus. Body brownish grey; anterior part of the back with 
short, narrow, black transverse streaks. Belly white, with black 
subquadrangular spots, the black and white being divided in 
nearly equal proportions. 134 ventral, 1 bifid anal, 25 sub- 
caudal shields. 
Found by Capt. R. H. Beddome in the Anamallay Hills. 
Oligodon brevicauda. 
Allied to O. dorsalis, but with very singular characters. Only 
one pair of frontals; rostral thick, broad, reaching far backwards. 
Scales in 15 rows; loreal none. Greyish violet. Head with 
the markings usual in the genus; a broad blackish collar, A 
band along the vertebral line, indistinct anteriorly, light greyish 
on the middle of the body, becoming pure white posteriorly and 
on the tail; it is bordered anteriorly by a series of pairs of equi- 
distant blackish spots; there are no black spots on the tail in- 
terrupting the dorsal band. A blackish longitudinal streak on 
each side, along the third outer series of scales. Ground-colour 
of belly the same as of the upper parts, with black quadrangular 
spots; subcaudals whitish. 172 ventral, 1 bifid anal, 30 sub- 
caudal shields. Anamallay Hills. 
Coronella brevis. 
Closely allied to C. girundica and C. cucullata. Scales in 
twenty-three rows; upper labials eight; anal bifid. Brownish 
olive; on each side of the occiput a dark spot, a dark collar be- 
hind ; an oblique brownish streak below the eye. Belly uni- 
form white. Body stout and short. Hinder mazillary tooth 
grooved. 
Discovered by the Rev. R. T. Lowe on the small Island (with- 
out name) off the coast of Mogador. 
Liophis viridis. Pl. IX. fig. 2. 
Habit rather slender. Scales smooth, without groove, in 19 
rows. Head rather depressed; shields of head regular and 
proportionate ; vertical with the lateral margins convergent; 
rostral broader than high ; loreal square; one anterior ocular 
reaching to the upper surface of the head; two posterior oculars; 
eight upper labials, the fourth and fifth entering the orbit ; one 
elongate anterior temporal, in contact with the two oculars ; 
two small temporals behind; six pairs of the lower labials in 
eontact with the chin-shields; two pairs of chin-shields, the 
anterior much larger than the posterior. Ventrals 178; anal 
