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or short transverse bands, along each side of the back ; upper labials 
yellowish with black sutures ; a yellow, black-edged, ‘oblique streak 
from the eye to the gape; a yellow band across the nape, behind 
the parietals; all these markings becoming indistinct with age ; 
yor white, uniform, or closely dotted with brown on the sides. 
otal length 660 millim. ; tail 190. 
S.W. India. 
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58. Tropidonotus stolatus. 
Russell, Ind. Serp. i. pl. x (1796), & pls. xv. B. & xix. (1801). 
ie sols Linn, 8, N. i, p. 379 (1766); Daud. Rept. vii. 
( 
Elaps bilineatus, Schneid. Hist. a ii. p. 299 te 
Coluber bilineatus, Daud. t. ce. Sher 
Tropidonotus stolatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, Phys. Serp. 
ii. p. 317 (1837) ; Cantor, Cat. Mal. age Od deity "Giinth. 
Cat. p. 68 (1858) ; Pecers, Mon. Berl. Ae. 1861, rp. ti 
rin Brit. Ind. p. 266 (1864); Theob. Cat. 7) rit. Ind. p. 177 
1876) ; Anders. An. Zool. gt Yunnan, p. 816 (1879); Murray, 
Geol Sind, p. 379 (1884) ; Boetty. Ber. Offend. Ver. Nat. 1888, 
p. 79; Bouleng. Faun. Ind, Ropt! p. 348, . (1890). , 
hs hiesma stolatum, Dum. § Bibr. Vii. p. "7 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. 
. An. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 233. 
? Tropidonotus ruficeps, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1869, p. 444. 
Eye moderate. Rostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from 
above ; internasals much narrowed anteriorly, as long as broad or a 
little longer, nearly as long as the prefrontals; frontal once and 
two thirds to twice as long as broad, longer than its distance from 
the end of the snout, as long as the parietals; loreal as long as deep 
or deeper ; one pre- and three postoculars ; temporals 141 or 1+2; 
eight upper labials normally, third, fourth, and fifth entering the 
eye; five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, 
strongly keeled, outer row smooth. Ventrals 120-161; anal 
divided ; subcaudals 50-89. Greenish or brownish olive, with 
more or less distinct black spots or reticulated cross bars intersected 
by two psi longitudinal bands, which are best marked posteriorly ; 
pre- and postoculars yellowish; lower surfaces white, usually with 
a black spot on each side of each ventral. 
