48. Lycopon. 355 
7. Lycodon travancoricus. (Pxrare XXIV. fig. 3.) 
—— travancoricus, Beddome, Madras Monthly Journ. Med. Sc. 
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Lycodon travancoricus, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 298 (1890). 
Snout much depressed, with swollen lips, subspatulate; eye 
rather small. Rostral much broader than long, hardly 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 
its distance from the end of the snout or a little longer, a little 
shorter than the parietals ; loreal elongate, rarely entering the eye, 
not touching the internasal; one preocular, usually in contact 
with the frontal; two postoculars; temporals small, scale-like, 
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 175-202, obtusely angulate laterally; anal undivided ; 
subcaudals usually in two rows, sometimes single*, 56-76. 
Coloration very similar to that of L. striatus, viz., dark brown or 
black above, with white cross bands and white lineolations on the 
sides, and uniform white below; but the upper lip is brown, or 
white spotted with brown. 
Total length 600 millim. ; tail 125. 
Southern India, as far north as the Bombay Ghats, 
a. Q (V.178; C. 66). Travancore Hills, Col. Beddome [C.]. 
5000 ft, (Type.) 
b-c. 2 (V. 184; C.68)& Travancore. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
. (V. 181; C. 69). 
d. 2 (V. 181; C. 56). Trevandrum, Travan- H. 8. Ferguson, Esq. 
core. ‘ge 
e-i. g (V. 194; C.75) & Anamallays, 4700 ft. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
hgr. (V. 190, 199, 189, 
190; C. 70,71, 69, 68). 
k, l-m. Q (V. 185; C.64) Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
& ber. (V. 190, 200; C. 
72, 71). 
n-p. 2 (V. 201; C.69)& Coonoor, Nilgherries, Col, Beddome [C.}. 
“(V. 190,196; C.76, 5900 ft, 
q-r. Hie. (V. 202,189; C. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
st. Hgr. (V. 186; C.72) Matheran, Bombay. Dr. Leith [P.]. 
& yg. (V. 175; C. 74). . 
* Out of 19 specimens examined, 14 have all the subcaudals paired ; three 
(b,d,) have them in part single (50 {' 1; 41; | 4411); and two (a, c) 
have them all single. Col, Beddome mentions another specimen with 
2 
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