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M.^- W. L. Sclater (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Lx. 1891, p. 239) 

 has drawn attention to the variations in the temporal scutellation 

 of this Snake. The two examples obtained by Signor Fea differ 

 from the two in the British Museum in having two superposed 

 anterior temporals. A singe praeocular and three or four post- 

 oculars. Young with a broad pure white occipital collar edged 

 with black in front and behind. 



41. Tropid-onotus siilbm.iiiia,tus, Schlg. 



Toungoo, Thao, District of the Karin Bia-po. 



42. I*seii<ioxeiiodlonL m.acrops, Ì3lyth. 

 District of tiie Karin Bia-po. A single specimen. 

 43. Trirhinoplxolis inacli.alis , Bloe. 



District of the Karin Bia-po. Tliree specimens. 



At the close of last year, the British Museum received, among 

 other Reptiles collected at Toungyi, in the Southern Shan States, 

 by M.^' E, W. Oates, a single specimen representing a new 

 genus of Snakes which I described under the above name in 

 the first volume of the Catalogue of Snakes (p. 419, pi. XXVllI, 

 fig. 1). Signor Fea's collection contains three specimens of the 

 same Snake; they differ from the type in the higher number 

 of ventral shields : 



1. 9. Ventral 143, subcaudals 26 



2. 9- •' 140, » 24 



3. Yg. » 139, » 22. . 



In the young, the arrow-headed nuchal marking is deep 

 black, bordered with yellowish behind, and the belly is coral-red 

 with two longitudinal series of transverse black spots, as often 

 occurs in Coronella girondica. The belly may be dotted all over 

 with black, in addition to the large spots, and the back either 

 of a dark purplish brown or reddish brown with darker brown 

 blotches and small black spots. 



