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48, Lycopon. 351 
the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals; loreal 
elongate, not entering the eye, forming a suture with the inter- 
nasal ; one preocular ; two postoculars; temporals small, 1 +2 or 
2+3,; nine or ten upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the 
eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 
rows. Ventrals 167-183, not angulate laterally ; anal divided ; sub- 
caudals 52-63 pairs. Brown above, each scale with two white dots, 
or short longitudinal lines; labials white ; usually a white collar ; 
lower surfaces uniform white. 
Total length 350 millim. ; tail 60. 
N.E. and 8. India and Burma. 
a. Q (V. 180; C.?). Calcutta. W. . Blanford, Esq. 
b. & (V.167; C. 63). Anamallays. Cul. Beddome [C.}. 
e. Hgr. (V 172; C. 56). Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.). 
d-e. 2 (V. 183; C.?) & hgr. India. Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 
f shi WV ; 100, 0. 61) & ber. Indi 
“g. 3 (V. 169; ©. ¢ her. a. 
(V. 180; C. 58). 
3. Lycodon tessellatus. 
Lycodon tessellatum, Jan, Elenco, p. 96 (1863), and Icon. Gén. 36, 
pl. iv. fig. 2 (1870). 
Snout moderately depressed ; eye rather small. Rostral broader 
than deep, just visible from above; internasals much shorter than 
the prefrontals; frontal nearly as long as its distance from the end 
of the snout, slightly shorter than the parietals; loreal elongate, 
not entering the eye, forming a suture with the internasal; one 
pre-and two postoculars ; temporals small, scale-like, 2+3; nine 
upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; four lower 
labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer 
than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Anal divided. 
Subcaudals in two rows. Above with three series of alternating 
black spots ; ventrals and subcaudals brown, edged with whitish. 
Manilla, Philippines. 
4. Lycodon anamallensis. (Prare XXIV. fig. 1.) 
Lycodon anamallensis, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 318 (1864); 
Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 293 (1890). 
Snout depressed, subspatulate in the adult; eye rather large 
in the half-grown, rather small in the adult. Rostral much broader 
than deep, just visible from above ; internasals much shorter than the 
prefrontals ; frontal once and a half to once and two thirds as long 
as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, slightly 
shorter than the parietals; two loreals, the anterior forming a 
suture with the internasal; one prwocular, in contact with the 
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