02. SIMOTES. 



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Fourth and fifth labials entering the eye : 



ventral* 171-180; subcaudals 34-42. 19. theobaldi, p. 230. 

 Fourth and fifth (rarely third and fourth) 



labials entering the eye ; ventrals 



148-173 ; subcaudals 27-37 20. cruentatus, p. 231. 



C. Scales in 15 rows 21. torquatus, p. 232. 



D. Scales in 13 rows 22. planiceps, p. 232. 



TABLB SHOWING NUMBERS OF SCALES AND SHIELDS. 



1. Simotes splendidus. 



Simotes splendidus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 231, pi. xxxiii. ; 

 Bauleng. Faun. Ind., Kept. p. 310 (1890). 



Nasal divided ; portion of rostral seen from above as long as its 

 distance from the frontal ; each of the internasals broken up into 

 two shields, there being four small shields in a transverse series ; 

 frontal longer than its distance from the end of the snout, slightly 

 longer than the parietals ; loreal deeper than long ; prseocular single, 

 with a small subocular below it, between the third and fourth 

 labials; two or three postoculars ; temporals 2+3; eight upper 

 labials, fourth and fifth entering the ey ; four lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields about 

 two thirds the length of the anterior. Scales in 21 rows. Ventrals 

 193; anal entire ; subcaudals 41. Cream-colour, with sixteen large, 

 brown, black-edged spots above, longer than the interspaces between 

 them; these spots indented in front and behind, and with at least 



