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352 COLUBRID. 
frontal ; two postoculars; temporals small, scale-like, 2+3; nine 
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 
189-202, obtusely angulate laterally ; anal undivided ; subcaudals 
64-74 pairs. Brown above, with narrow white, black-edged cross 
bands ; labials white, each with a brown spot ; lower parts uniform 
white. 
Total length 510 millim. ; tail 95. 
8. India. 
a. Hgr. (V. 202; C.74). | Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
(Type.) 
b. 2 (V. 189; C. 64). Wynad. Col. Boddome [C.]. 
5. Lycodon aulicus. 
Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. pls. xxxvii. & xxxix. (1801), 
Coluber aulicus, Linn. Mus, Ad. Frid. i. p. 29, pl. xii. fig. 2 (1754), 
and S. N. i. p. 881 (1766). 
Lycodon aulicus, Bote, Isis, 1827, p.551; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. 
p. 316 (1864), and Zool. Ree. 1870, p. 75; Jan, Icon. Gén. 36, 
pl. iv. fig. 1 (1870) ; Theob. Cat, Rept. Brit. Ind. p- 199 (1876) ; 
Murray, Zool. Sind, p- 383 (1884); Bouleng. Faun, Ind., Rept. 
p. 294 (1890). 
capucinus, Bove, 1. ¢. 
unicolor, Bote, 1. Cc. 
—— hebe, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 106, pl. iv. figs. 1-6 (1837). 
aulicus, part., Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 68 (1847); Dum. § 
Bibr. vii. p. 369 (1854) ; ’Giinth. Cat. p- DOr (1858). 
Tytleria hypsirhinoides, Theob. Cat. Kept. 4s. Soc. Mus, p. 66 
(1868). 
Snout much depressed, with swollen lips, spatulate in the adult ; 
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 two thirds as long as broad, usually 
shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than 
the parietals ; loreal elongate, not entering the eye, extensively i in 
contact with the internasal; one preocular, usually in contact with 
the frontal; two (rarely three) postoculars ; temporals small, 2+3 
or 3+3; nine 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 178-224, obtusely angulate laterally ; nasal 
divided (rarely entire) ; subcaudals 56-80 pairs. Brown above, 
uniform or with whitish markings; upper lip white, uniform or 
spotted with brown; lower parts uniform white. 
Total length 510 millim.; tail 110. 
India and Ceylon, Himalayas, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Malay 
Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Philippines, Celebes, Flores, Timor. 
Introduced in the Mascarene Islands. 
