180 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, 



The Bengal and Amherst specimens have all twenty-five rows of 

 scales. A female from the Hoogley, measuring 39" 6'", and the 

 tail 6" 9'", contains twenty-five fully developed young ; eighteen of 

 them have two infraoculars, only five have one infraocular ; one has 

 two infraoculars on one side and only one on the other, and in 

 another the infraocular is confluent with the lowest postocular. In 

 none are the nasals confluent; and all have twenty-five rows of scales. 

 The teeth are wonderfully well developed for the size of the young, 

 which on an average measure 7" 10'" in total length, the tail 

 measuring 1" C". This female has 143 ventrals ; caudals 5(5. 

 In the adults of this species that have come under my observation, 

 there has always been a narrow black longitudinal band from behind 

 the eye along the side of the neck to the first black cross bar. In 

 the young this band commences from the tip of the snout, and passes 

 through the eye and further along the neck than in the majority of 

 adults. There are also in the young a short, narrow, longitudinal 

 black line on each side of the ventral line, on the nape of the neck, 

 and a black spot on each superciliary. The upper labials are only 

 as it were dusted with brown, while the chin and lower labials are 

 spotted with black. There are a series of black spots along the side 

 and more or less connected with the cross bars, which are very in- 

 distinct and imperfect in by far the majority. The black on the 

 ventral aspect is very intense, and prolonged up the sides. 



It is a curious fact that all these young specimens in utero were 

 shedding their skins. 



Ferania sieboldii (Schlegel) ; Gthr. /. c. p. 284. 



Homalopsis sieboldii, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxviii. p. 297. 

 Feranoides jamncetica, Carlleyle, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. 

 p. IDG, figs. 3 & 4. 



This specimen was caught in the Jumna at Agra, and it is identical 

 in every particular with another specimen before me from Pegu. 

 Both have twenty-nine rows of scales, as originally described by 

 Schlegel*, and afterwards by Dumeril and Bibron. Dr. Giinther, 

 however, restricts the number of scales to 27; ventrals 155, 

 caudals 52. 



Pupil vertical ; rostral five-sided, broader than high ; anterior 

 frontals small, transversely triangular, half as large as posterior ; 

 vertical nearly as long as occipitals, longer than broad, with the 

 lateral margins slightly concave (in both specimens), and a right 

 angle behind ; occipitals obliquely truncated or slightly rounded be- 

 hind ; loreal rather quadrangular, lying in the sutures of the first two 

 or three upper labials, nearly as large as first temporal and almost 

 touching anterior frontals (in contact on one side in Pegu specimen). 

 Prseocular narrow, high, resting on suture of third and fourth upper 

 labials, and reaching the upper surface of the head ; two postoculars, 

 the lowest the larger, lying on sutures of fourth and fifth and fifth 



* Essai s. 1. phys. Serp. tome i. p. 172. 



