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frontals ; frontal once and one third as long as broad, as long as 
its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 
Joreal twice as long as deep; one preocular, forming a suture with 
the frontal; three postoculars; temporals 2+ 3; eight upper 
labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; four lower 
labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; posterior chin- 
shields as large as the anterior and in contact with each other 
‘anteriorly. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 187; anal divided; 
subcaudals 67 pairs. Pale brown above, with squarish dark brown 
spots disposed quincuncially, those on the vertebral line much 
larger than the others; the first spot, on the occiput, produced 
forwards as a streak to the frontal; a rhomboidal dark brown spot 
on the snout; an irregular dark streak on each side of the head, 
passing through the eye ; yellowish white beneath, tail with some 
small brown spots. 
Total length 435 millim. ; tail 92. 
Madagascar. : 
a. 2 (V. 187; C. 67). S.W. Madagascar. Mr. Last [C.]. 
2. Stenophis granuliceps. 
Dipsas (Heterurus) gaimardi, var. granuliceps, Boetig. Abh. Senck. 
Ges. xi. 1877, p. 14, pl. i. fig. 3, & xii. 1881, p. 448. 
(Heterurus) gaimardi, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, c. 1891, p. 297. 
Rostral twice as broad as deep, scarcely visible from above; 
internasals not or but slightly broader than long, 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 longer than its distance 
from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal much 
longer than deep; one preocular (rarely divided) in contact with or 
narrowly separated from the frontal; two or three postoculars ; 
temporals 14+2 or 2+38; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 
entering the eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields; posterior chin-shields a little shorter than 
the anterior and in contact with each other. Scales in 17 rows. 
Ventrals 229-248; anal divided; subcaudals 107-122, all divided 
or afew (2 to 5) entire. Pale brown or yellowish above, with 
dark brown or black cross-bars, which may be narrower or broader 
than the interspaces ; a L-shaped black marking on the occiput and 
nape; white beneath, tail with black spots. 
Total length 720 millim. ; tail 170. 
Madagascar. 
a & (V. 233; C. 121). Nossi Bé. Senckenberg Mus. [E. ]. 
b. dS (V. 229; C. 122). Imerina. Rev. R. Baron [C.]. 
£. 2 (V. 242; C, 115). Madagascar. 
