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Colour—Head_ blackish-brown above. Body dorsally uniform 
blackish-brown. An ill-defined and rather obscure pale spot on the 
neck behind each parietal shield. Ventrally roseate from chin to vent, 
including the ultimate row of costals. A median pink subcaudal 
stripe. 
The specimen is a gravid female, and contained three eggs about 12 
mm. long. 
It is unfortunate that there is no record of the date of capture or 
the locality where found. However I found specimens of Platy- 
plectrurus trilineatus, Silybura pulneyensis, and S. nigra in the collec- 
tion, and as it is known that specimens were received from Shemba- 
ganur everything points to its coming from the Palnai Hills. 
My thanks are due to Father Accouturier for allowing me to present 
the specimen to the British Museum. 
The accompanying figure shows the detail of the lepidosis but the: 
specimen is rather shrivelled, and the eye may not be quite accurate. 
