ty 
350 COLUBRID. 
Rostral much broader than deep, just visible from above ; inter- 
nasals much shorter than the prefrontals; frontal once and one 
third to once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance 
from the end of the snout, as Jong as the parietals or a little shorter ; 
loreal elongate, not entering the eye, forming a suture with the — 
internasal; two postoculars; temporals small, 1+2, 242, or 2+3; 
eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; four 
or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
are usually longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. 
Ventrals 153-178, not angulate; anal divided; subcaudals 42-66 
pairs. Dark brown or black above, with white transverse spots or 
cross bands, which are widely separated anteriorly ; sides lineolated 
with white, with a black spot corresponding to each white cross 
' © band; upper lip and lower parts uniform white. 
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Total length 430 millim, ; tail 75. 
India; Transcaspia. 
a. 3 (V.177; ©. 66). Puli Hatun, Trans- M. C. Eylandt [C.}. 
caspia. 
. b. 9 (V. 178; C, 44). Kurrachee. ar Museum 
c-e. og (V. 162, 172; C. Russelconda. ot Doddome [O.}., = 
43, 47) & 2 (V. 166; . 
C. 47). 
Ft. 2 (V. 175; C. 51). Madras. J. i Boileau, Esq. 
' g. & (V. 155; C. 48). Wynad. oat eddome [C.]. 
h-ti, k-l, m, n. & (V. 167, Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C. j. 
160; C. 51, 43), 2 (V. 
164; ©. 45), hgr. (V. 177; 
C. 44), & yg. (V. 168, 
160; C. 50, 45). i 
o-g. o (V. 164; C. 50), S. India. : Col. Beddome [C.}. 
ia (V. 1733 C. 42), & 
yg. (V. 160; C. 44). 
r-s. fo (V.168, 158; C.62, India. 
54). 
2. Lycodon jara. 
Russell, Ind. Serp. i. pl. xiv. (1796). 
Coluber jara, Shaw, Zool. iii, p. 525 (1802). 
—— bipunctatus, Cantor, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 52. 
Lycodon jara, Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 110 (1837); Peters, Mon. 
Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 236; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl, 1871, 
p. 442; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 292 (1890). 
Leptorhytaon jara, Giinth. Cat. p. 205 (1858), and Rept. Brit Ind. 
. 321 (1864), 
Ly cophilten bipunctatum, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1863, p. 403. 
Snout much depressed ; eye rather small. Rostral much broader 
than deep, just visible from above ; internasals much shorter than 
the prefrontals ; frontal once and one third to once and a half as 
long as broad, as long as or a little shorter than its distance from 
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