560 VIPERID&. 
n-o. g (Se. 17; V. 145; C. Punduloya, 4000 ft, Mp Green, Esq. 
59) & yg. (Sc. 19; V. 145; 
C. 58) 
. o (Se. 17; V. 157; C. ——?P (Types of M. olivacea,) 
) & 9 (Sc. 19; V. 144; 
C. 56). . 
r. Skull. Ceylon. Miss Layard [P.}. 
30. Lachesis macrolepis. 
Trimeresurus macrolepis, Beddome, Madras Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. 
1863; Bouleng, Faun, Ind., Rept. p. 431 (1890); Boettg. Ber. 
Offend. Ver. Nat. 1892, p. 93. ) 
Peltopetor macrolepis, Giinth, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 891, pl. xxiii. 
fig. C (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 225 (1876). 
Rostral a little broader than deep; nasal entire or divided ; 
upper head-scales very large, imbricate, smooth ; supraoculars very 
large, separated anteriorly by one scale, posteriorly by three ; inter- 
nasals in contact or separated by one scale; two postoculars and a 
subocular, the latter in contact with the third and fourth labials ; 
7 or 8 upper labials, the second forming the anterior border of the 
loreal pit. Scales very large, keeled, outer much smaller than dorsals, 
in 13 to 15 rows. Ventrals 184-143; anal entire; subcaudals 48- 
56 pairs. Tail prehensile. Uniform bright green or olive above; a 
whitish line along the outer row of scales; pale greenish beneath. 
Total length 680 millim.; tail 120. 
Anamallay and Pulney hills, 8. India. 
a,b,c. & (Sc. 18,138; V. 134, Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
138; C. 53, 56) & yg. (Se. (Types.) 
15; V. 185; C. 52). 
d. 2 (Se. 15; V.140; C, 48). Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
31. Lachesis puniceus. 
Cophias punicea, Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 561. ; 
Trigonocephalus puniceus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 545, pl. xix. 
figs. 10 & 1] (1887), and Abbild, p. 118, p xxxviil. (1844). 
Atropos acontia (non Laur.), Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 49 (1842), and 
Cat, p. 18 (1849). 
puniceus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 1519 (1854). 
Atropophis puniceus, Peters, Ann. Mus. Genova, iii. 1871, p. 41. 
—— borneensis, part., I. Miill. Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, viii. 1887, 
282. 
Tinie puniceus, Boettg. Ber. Offend. Ver. Nat. 1892, p. 186. 
Snout short, obliquely truncate, with sharp raised angle all 
round; eye rather small. MRostral as broad as deep or a little 
deeper than broad; upper head-scales small, juxtaposed or sub- 
imbricate, smooth on the snout and vertex; 12 to 14 scales in a 
transverse series between the supraoculars, which are narrow or 
broken up into pointed, erect scales ; two pairs of internasals ; two 
to four postoculars and one or two suboculars, separated from the 
labials by two or three series of scales; temporal scales smooth or 
