60. COLUBER. 



87 



body and on the tail. Ventrals 220-205 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 



\. Young pale brown above, with black cross bands, each 



-ing four to six white ocelli ; adult darker brown, with trans- 



seriea of black squarish spots, or with more or less distinct 



traces of the livery of the young ; a vertical black streak below the 



eye and an oblique one behind . the eye ; some specimens have a 



white hLirk-fdsjed collar, others two black longitudinal streaks on 



the head. Lower parts yellowish, with or without a few small 



black spots ; sometimes with a more or less distinct festooned 



marking on each side. 



Total length 1260 millim. ; tail 250. 

 India and Ceylon. 



Madras. 

 Matheran. 



Malabar. 



Anamallays, 



Anamallays. 



Sir W. Elliot [P.]. 

 Dr. Leith [P.]. 



Col. Beddome [C.]. 



Col. Beddome [C."!. 

 (Types of C. malabaricus.) 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 



a. <J (Sc. 27 ; V. 228 ; 



C. M >. 

 b-d. $ (Sc. 25; V. 242; 



C. 85) & yg. (Sc. !>>, 



I 1 '.; V. 2&>, 228; 0. 



90, 78). 

 e-f. $ (Sc. 25, 25 ; V. 



246, 265: C. 85, ?). 

 g-h. \ .. 25 ; V. 



I':!''., i' 17 ; C. 94, 75). 

 i. \.. (80. i'7; V. 226; 



C. 80). 

 k. $ i >c. L>.-> ; V. 261 ; 



C. 80). 



/. H_T. (Sc. 27; V. 231; 

 -1). 



m-r. c? (Sc. 27 ; V. 235 ; 



C. 88) & yg. (Sc. 27, 



87,27,27,27; V. -2-24, 



L'i'.-. i".l, 2*5, 220; C. 



'.'4, 80, 82, ?). 



9. Coluber triaspis. 



Coluber triaspis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Phil fid. 18(56, p. 128, and Proc. Ant. 

 Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 175 ; Gitnth. Biol. C.-Am., Kept. p. 115 



Peermad, Travan- 



core. 

 Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 R. Templeton, Esq. 



[P.]. (Type of (.'. 



biatrigatus.) 



Pityophis intermedius, Boettg. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 23-24, p. 148 



<" lh ~ ,V 



Coluber inutabills, Cope, Proc. Am. Pffil^s. Soc. xxii. !"). j>. 17"). 



Niitrix mutubilis, Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 32, 1887, p. 71. 

 - triaspis, Cope, I. c. 



Scotophis mutabilia, Bocourt, Mits. Sc. Mex., Kept. p. 680, pi. xlvi. 

 fig. 2 (1888). 



Rostral nearly as deep as broad, visible from above ; internasala 

 broader than long, much shoaer than the praefrontals ; frontal once 

 and a half as long as broad, is long as its distance from the end of 

 tin- -mout, shorter than the parietals; loreal longer than deep; one 

 pncocular, sometimes in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2 or 3 + 3 or 4; eight (rarely nine) upper labials, fourth 



