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labials, evidently resulting from the division of the third; and in one 

 of them there are only two postoculars, resulting from the union of 

 the two lower shields. One of these specimens is from Nazeerah, 

 Assam, and the other from Darjeeling. All the other shields of the 

 head are normal, with the exception of the occipitals, which are ob- 

 liquely truncated behind in the Darjeeling specimen. Both have 

 the pale area round the eye, the black streak between the fifth and 

 sixth labials, and the black spots along the sides of the ventrals. In 

 the Darjeeling specimen, measuring 25" 2'" in length, the yellow 

 collar is very distinct, and the scales behind it for some distance have 

 brilliant coral-red margins, interspersed with others narrowly 

 margined with black, and arranged in a kind of zigzag manner, which 

 is continued all over the body, the coral-red being lost on the pos- 

 terior fourth of the body and its place taken by brilliant yellow. 

 The general colour of the scales, however, is uniform greenish 

 olive ; and their bright colours are only seen where the scales are 

 pulled aside, when the colours are found also to involve the skin as 

 well. 



This is a very common species in Darjeeling and also in Assam, 

 and it is usually found at elevations of 4000 feet and upwards. 



Tropidonotus himalayanus, Gthr. I. c. p. 265. 



Two specimens from Darjeeling agree in every particular with 

 this species, except that one of them has a small portion of the 

 upper anterior margin of the temporal separated as a small shield, 

 less than one-fourth the size of the parent shield. In this specimen 

 the quadrangular spots are brilliant brick-red, and the general 

 colour of the anterior part of the body is greenish olive-brown. The 

 yellowish variegation of the anterior part of the body described by 

 Giinther is brilliant coral-red in fresh specimens. 



Total length. Tail. 



24" 3'" 6" 2'" 



35 3 8 6 



29 9 Imperfect. 



The third specimen has been lately received from the same 

 locality, but, although it agrees with all the other characters of this 

 species, it has only seven upper labials, the third and fourth of which 

 enter the orbit. 



Hah. Darjeeling, 3200 to 4000 feet. 



Cantoria dayana, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxxix. 

 p. 208. 



Body much elongate, neck very slightly contracted. Head rather 

 flat, obtusely rounded in front ; eye very small. Rostral as high as 

 broad, pointed above ; upper lateral margins concave. Single prse- 

 frontal wedge-shaped, with its pointed extremity directed forwards 

 in contact with the rostral. Nasals large, with the nostrils placed 

 behind their middles ; posterior frontals of moderate size, scale-like, 

 nearly as large as the nasals ; vertical broad, shield-shaped, hex- 



