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24. Tropidonotus cerasogaster. 



Tropidonotus cerasogaster. Cant. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1847, 

 p. 92; Gthr. Cat. Colubr. Sn. p. 79. 



One coloured drawing of a young specimen. 

 Central hilly region. 



25. Coluber, sp. ? 



A drawing, 12 iuclies long, represents a Snake of which we have 

 not seen a specimen, but which, if we may judge from the colours, ap- 

 pears to be allied to Coluber callicephalus, Gray. A series of broad, 

 rhombic, confluent brown bands edged with black occupies the back ; 

 the sides are white dotted with brown ; belly whitish. The specimen 

 being very small, the shields of the head and the scales are not re- 

 presented with sufficient distinctness to admit of a description of their 

 ibrm, number, &c. 



Central hilly region. 



26. Spilotes hodgsonii. 



Spilotes hodgsonii, Gthr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 156, pi. 27. 



The Pila Matia. 



Two specimens ; one drawing unfinished. 



27. Spilotes reticularis. 



Coluber reticulai'is, Cant. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 51. 



Spilotes reticularis, Gthr. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 98. 



The Dorah. 



All the eight specimens in the British Museum collection are from 

 the Himalayas, and two of them from Mr. Hodgson's Nepalese col- 

 lection. Two coloured drawings. 



28. Spilotes melanurus. 



Coluber melanurus, Schleg. Abbildg. t. 5. 



Spilotes melanurus, Gthr. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 97 (nee Dum. & Bibr.). 



Two half-grown specimens from Mr. Hodgson's collection have 

 two very conspicuous black longitudinal bands along the back ; 

 several of the shields of the head are united, so as to form only six 

 upper and four lower labial shields. The loreal shield, too, has dis- 

 appeared. 



29. CORYPHODON FASCIOLATUS. 



Coluber fasciolatus, Shaw, Zool. p. 528. 

 Coryphodon fasciolatus, Gthr. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 109. 



One coloured drawing. 

 Central hilly region. 



30. Coryphodon blumenbachii. 



Coluber blumenbachii, Merr. Tent. p. 119; Schleg. Ess. pi. 6. 

 f. 7, 8. 



