244 0?? a new Snahefrom Yunnan. 



XXVI T. — Description of a neio Snake from Yunnan. 

 By G. A. BouLENGEii, F.R.S. 



Tropidonotus joliannis. 



Eye rather small. Rostral not quite twice as broad as 

 deep, just visible from above ; internasals as long as broad, 

 nearly as long as the prsefrontals, much narrowed in front; 

 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, much 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep or a little 

 longer than deep ; one or two praj- and three or four post- 

 oculars; temporals 2+1 or 2 + 2 ; eight upper labials, third, 

 fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter 

 than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, dorsals feebly or 

 faintly keeled, laterals smooth. Ventrals 165-170 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 85-89. Olive-brown above, with more 

 or less distinct darker and lighter spots, the latter forming a 

 lateral series or an ill-defined lateral streak ; a curved 

 yellowish streak may be present on each side of the nape; 

 sutures between the labials blackish ; ventrals and subcaudals 

 yellow, with the ends olive-grey and bearing large black spots 

 forming a lateral series. 



Total length 910 mm.; tail 210. 



Three sj)ccimens from Yunnan fu, received from the 

 Rev. John Graham. 



Allied to T. modestus, Gthr., and T. pleuroUema^ Blgr, 



The three species may be distino-aished by the following 

 characters : — 



Upper 



labials. Veutrals. Subcaudals. 



T. modestus 9 154-168 96-122 



T.johannis 8 165-170 85-89 



T, 2)leurot(enia 8 148 66 



XXVllI. — On some new Species and Subspecies of Birds 

 from Upper Burma. By Major H. H. Harington. 



During two months' leave spent in making a collecting-trip 

 in the Bhamo Hills, N.E. Burma, I was fortunate enough to 

 procure examples of many rare birds and their eggs, in- 

 cluding some Chinese species, which had not previously been 



