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33. Coluber prasinus. 



Coluber prasinus, Blyth, Joitrn. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1854, p. 291 ; 

 A'.,,,',/,,/. Faun. Iml., lii-pt. p. Jj:J4 (l>!KJj; II'. Sclater, Jour,i. 



sc. Beng. Ix. 1801, p. 239. 



(ipnyoeoma gramineuni, Giinth. Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 294, pi. xxiii. 

 D (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 190 ^1876) ; Anders. 

 An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 824 (1879). 



Rostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals a little broader than long, shorter than the pnefrontals ; 

 frontal once and one fourth to once and one third as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal square or longer than deep ; one praeocular (some- 

 times divided), usually in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2 or 2+2 ; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 19 rows ; dorsals feebly keeled in the adult, smooth in the 

 young. Ventrals with a lateral keel, 198-206; anal divided 

 (rarely entire) ; subcaudals 91-107. Uniform bright green above; 

 upper lip and lower surfaces yellowish or greenish white. 



Total length 900 millim. ; tail 230. 



Eastern Himalayas, Khasi Hills, Assam, Burma. 



a. Yg. (V. 203 ; C. 100). Khasi Hills (?). Dr. Griffith. 



(Type of G. gramineum.) 



b,c. c? (V. 198; C. 107) Khasi Hills. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



fchgr.(V. 900;C.P), [P.]. 



d. $ ( V. 198 ; C. 91;. Toungvi, Shan States, Lieut. Blakeway [C.]. 



5000ft. 



34. Coluber quadrivirgatus. 



Coluber quadrivirgatus, oie, Isis, 1826, p. 209; Schleg. Phys. Serj). 



ii. p. 147, pi. v. tigs. 16 & 16 (1837), andFaun. Japan, p. 84, pi. i. 



(1838). 



vulneratus, Boie, 1. c. p. 212. 



Compsosotua quadrivirgatum, Dum. fy Bibr. vii. p. 301 (1854). 

 Klupnis quadrivirgatus, Giinth. Cat. p. 94(1858); Jan, Icon. Gen. 



2 . pi. i. figs. 1-3 (1867) ; Hilgendorf, Sitz. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 



1880, p. 114. 

 bilineatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1800, p. 497. 



Eye rather largo ; rostral broader than deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals broader than long, shorter than the pnefront;ils ; 

 frontal once and three fifths to twice as long as broad, longer than 

 its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal usually as long as deep, or a little deeper ; 

 ono praeocular, usually with a subocular below it ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2+2 or 2+3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or longer than the 

 posterior. Scales in 19 rows, feebly but distinctly keeled (some- 



