92. 8IMOTE8. :>:{) 



transverse blackish bars ; head with well-marked dark markings, 

 viz. a crescentic band anteriorly, passing through the eyes, and a 

 chevron-shaped band behind, the apex on the frontal ; a large 

 blackish nuchal spot, partly divided by the light vertebral line ; 

 lower surfaces yellowish, with or without square black spots ; tail 

 immaculate. 



Total length 380 millim. ; tail 30. 



Burma. 



A. Belly with square black spots. 



a. $ (V. 180 ; C. 35). Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. 



(C.I (Type.') 



B. Belly unspotted. 



a. $ (V. 174 ; C 85). Minhla. M. L. Fea [C.]. 



6. 2 (V. 174 ; C. 34). Near Toungoo. E. W. Gates, Esq. 



c. J (V. 171 ; C. 42). Thayetinyo. E. Y. Watson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



20. Simotes cmentatns. (PLA.TE X. fig. 1.) 



Simotea cruentatus, Giinth. Ann. $ Mag. N. H. (4) L 1868, p. 417 ; 

 Theob. Journ. Linn. Sac. x. 1868, p. 41 ; Stoliczka, Proc. At. Soc. 

 Benff. 1872, p. 145 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Kept. p. 815 (1890). 



Nasal divided ; portion of rostral seen from above shorter than 

 its distance from the frontal ; suture between the internasals much 

 shorter than that between the praefrontals ; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the end of the snout, slightly shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal longer than deep, but usually shorter than in the 

 preceding species ; praeocular single : two postoculars ; temporals 

 1-f 2; eight (rarely seven) upper labials, fourth and fifth (or third 

 and fourth) entering the eye : four or five lower labials in contact 

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

 thirds the length of the anterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 

 148-173 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 27-37. Brown above, with 

 four more or less distinct darker longitudinal lines ; symmetrical 

 dark markings on head broken up, rather indistinct in the adult, an 

 oblique spot below the eye and a large patch on the occiput being 

 distinguishable ; lower surfaces yellowish (coral-red in life) with 

 square black spots, at least on the posterior third of the belly ; a 

 large black spot at the base of the tail, and sometimes a second near 

 the tip. 



Total length 350 millim. ; tail 45. 



Pegu. 



a-d. d (V. 164, 165, 163, Pegu. W.Theobald, Esq. 



1 J t ; C. 33, 37, 37, 3fl) [C.I (Types.) 



& $ (V. 1(17; C. 30). 

 f. Ypr. (V. 148; C. 3<5). Pegu. W. Thoobald, Esq. 



[C.]. 



