175. DRYOPHIs. 179 
. 2 (V. 144; C. 70). Madras Presidency. __T. = Jerdon, Esq. ) 
b-f. 3 (V. 142, 188, India. Sir J. MacGregor 
142, 140, 141; C.79, . [P.}. > 
82, 80, 75, 80). ; 
g-t. 3 (V. 141, 1385; India. Zool. Society. 
CO. 80, 70) & @ (V. 7 
147; ©. 69). (Types of D. tropidococcy:.) 
k-l. 8 (V. 140, 185; India. 
C. 77, 76). 
2. Dryophis dispar. 
Tragops dispar, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 303, pl. xxiii. fig. A 
(1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 192 (1876). 
Dryophis dispar, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 3868 (1890). 
Snout pointed and projecting, without dermal appendage, not 
quite twice as long as the eye. Internasals or internasals and 
prefrontals usually in contact with the labials; one or two small 
loreals ; frontal as long as or longer than its distance from the end 
of the snout, as long as the parietals; one preocular, in contact 
with the frontal, with one or two suboculars below it; two post- 
oculars; temporals 242 or 2+3; eight upper labials, fifth entering 
the eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 
which are as long as or a little shorter than the posterior. Scales 
in 15 rows, those on sacral region more or less distinctly keeled. 
Ventrals 142-156; anal divided; subcaudals 82-106. Bright 
green or bronzy olive above, the skin between the scales black; 
pale green or pale olive beneath, with a yellow line on each side. 
Total length 650 millim. ; tail 200. 
Hills of Southern India. . 
a-f. 2 (V. 151,149,151, Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
145, 156; C. 97, 100, (Types.) 
97, 97, 105) & her. 
(V. 158; C. 106). 
g-r. 2 (V. 142, 150,147; Anamallays, Col. Beddome [C.]. 
C. 90, 82, 95). 
k. 3 (V. 157; C. 92). Madras Presidency. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
Z. 3 (V. 158; C. P). High Range, Travan- H.S. Ferguson, Esq. 
core. [P.]. ; 
3. Dryophis fronticinctus. 
Dryiophis fronticinctus, Giinth. Cat. p. 158 (1858); Bouleng. Faun. 
any ame. p- 868 (1890) ; W. Sclater, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1x. 
» P» 28. 
Tragops fronticinctus, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 304, pl. xxiii. fig. E 
(1864); Theob. Journ. Linn, Soc. x. 1868, p. 52; Stoliczka, Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 197; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. 
p- 192 (1876). 
—— javanicus (non Steind.), Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (A) i. 
1868, p. 424; Theod. 1. ¢. p. 193. 
Snout pointed and projecting, without dermal appendage, mea- 
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