REPTILIA FROM BURMA 603 



71. Azemiops feae, sp. n. {pi. VII). 



Head elliptical , snout short and broad ; rostral moderate , 

 broader than deep; internasals and praefrontals subequal in 

 length ; frontal a little broader than long, nearly thrice as broad 

 as the supraocular ; parietals as long as their distance from the 

 end of the snout, pointed posteriorly, bordered laterally by the 

 anterior temporal and three scales ; loreal small , pentagonal , 

 deep as long; two praeoculars on the right side, three on the 

 left (the former number being apparently the normal) ; two 

 subequal postoculars; two large superposed anterior temporals, 

 the upper alone in contact with the postoculars ; six upper la- 

 bials, third entering the orbit, first and second smallest, fourth 

 and fifth largest ; seven lower labials , first large and forming 

 a long suture with its fellow , second small ; a pair of 

 short chin-shields , the suture between them shorter than that 

 between the first labials, separated from the ventral shields by 

 three transverse series of scales. Dorsal scales equal, smooth, 

 in 17 longitudinal series. Ventrals 180 ; subcaudals 42 pairs. 

 Blackish above , the scales being dark grey in the centre and 

 black on the borders, with fifteen transverse white bands, one 

 scale wide, some of which are disconnected in the middle and 

 alternate with those on the other side ; upper surface of head, 

 from the praefrontals, black, with a yellow median line, which 

 is very narrow anteriorly and widens posteriorly , ending on 

 the neck on the eleventh transverse series of scales; end of 

 snout and sides of head yellow ; a blackish streak from below 

 the eye to the lower border of the fourth upper labial ; another 

 from the postoculars to the upper border of the sixth labial. 

 Lower parts olive grey , with some small lighter spots ; chin 

 and throat variegated with yellow. 



Total length 610 millim. ; tail 90. 



Kakhien Hills. — A single specimen. 



Viperidae. 



72. Bothrops monticola, Gray. 

 Kakhien Hills. 



