81. KHAIH 



TABLE SHOWING NUMBERS OF SCALES AND SHIELDS. 



1. Rhadinaea lencogaster. 



Liophis leucojraster, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 289, 

 and Icon. Gen. 13, pi. vi. tig. 1 (1865). 



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

 above ; internasals broader than long ; suture between the inter- 

 nasals a little shorter than that between the praefrontals ; frontal 

 about once and a half as long as broad, longer than its distance 

 from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; latter as long as 

 their distance from the internasals ; loreal square ; one prae- and 

 one postocular ; temporals l-j-2 ; six upper labials, third and fouith 

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

 chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. 

 \cntrals 140; anal divided ; subcaudals 30. Brown above, with 

 black cross bands, some of the scales on the middle line between 

 tin- bands edged with white ; a black lateral stripe on the hinder 

 p.irt of the body, extending to the ends of the veutrals; lower 

 burl'ace white. 



T'.t.tl Icii-th int millim..; tail 28. 



Habitat unknown. 



