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of the snout, nearly as long as the parietals; loreal as long as deep ; 
_ one pre- and two or three postoculars; temporals 242 or 243; 
nine (exceptionally ten) upper labials, fourth and fifth (or fifth and 
sixth) entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales 
in 17 rows, smooth or faintly keeled. Ventrals 142-154; anal 
divided ; subcaudals 62-83. Brown or black above, with small 
pale markings or dots ; two outer rows of scales, and the ventrals 
and subcaudals yellowish with dark margins; upper lip uniform 
yellowish ; frequently a light, curved, longitudinal streak on each 
side of the nape. 
Total length 600 millim.; tail 150. 
Pegu, Burma. 
a. 2 (V. 142; C. 62). —? Zoological Society. (Type.) 
3 (V. 144, 144; Pegu. Theobald, Esq .(C.}. 
C. 70, 88) & 2 (V. 
154, 154; C. 78, 80). 
30. Tropidonotus modestus, (Pzare XIV. fig. 3.) 
Tropidonotus modestus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 232 ; Anders. 
Zool, Res. Yunnan, p. 817 (1879) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., 
Rept. p- 343 (1890). 
Eye rather small. Rostral twice as broad as deep, just visible 
from above; internasals as long as broad, shorter than the pre- 
frontals ; frontal once and a half to once and two thirds as long as 
broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 
than the parietals; loreal longer than deep; one (or two) pre- and 
two or three postoculars; temporals 1+1 (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 a little 
shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, feebly keeled. 
Ventrals 154-168; anal divided; subcaudals 96-122) Olive- 
brown above, with small black spots, and a more or less distinct 
series of small yellowish spots, or a yellowish stripe, along each side 
of the back; sutures between the labials black; lower surfaces 
yellowish, with a series of blackish spots on each side of the 
ventrals, or yellowish in the middle and blackish on the sides, or 
nearly entirely blackish. 
Total length 600 millim.; tail 180. 
Khasi Hills and Western Yunnan. 
red é ¥4 166, 163 ; Khasi Hills. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.}. 
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