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and 4th touching the eve, 6th longest. Posterior sublinguals about three- 
fourths the anterior ; touching the 5th and 6th infralabials. IJnfralabials 6 ; 
the 6th about three-fourths the length of the posterior sublinguals, and 
subequal to the breadth of those shields ; in contact with two scales behind. 
Maxillary teeth about 20 (?) Syncranterian ?, coryphodont. 
Dorsally the prevailing tint is a pale brown. The scales are more or less 
finely black-edged, producing a reticulate effect. The whole back from the 
nape to the tail-tip is crossed with black-edged, buff bars involving threc or four 
scales in the length of the snake, the intervals involving two or three scales. 
The bars are dislocated dorso-laterally, and pass to the ventral edges. The 
-belly is buff with squarish, black, lateral, irregularly distributed spots (like 
some Oligodon). The tailis buff beneath, witha few small central blackish 
spots. The head is buff. A conspicuous well-defined black V, shaped 
like a tuning-fork, has its base on the nape behind the parietals, its arms ex- 
tending to the prefrontals. A similar well-defined black postocular streak 
meets its fellow over the nape. There isa black subocular spot on the 3rd 
and 4th supralabials, and another similar one on the 6th and 7th passes below 
the gape. There in a black spot at the meeting of the mental, and Ist infra- 
labials, and another on the confines of the 4th and 5th infralabials. 
Tassociate Mr. Leonard’s name with the species, which appears to me very 
close to C. porphyraceus Cantor. 
Oligodon herberli Boulenger. 
A very fine example of this rare snake, described by Mr. Boulenger in 1905 
has been received, the first representative in our collection, and only the third 
known. It measured 400 mm. (1 foot, 32 inches). The costals are 13 in the 
whole body length. Ventrals 208. Anal divided. Subcaudals 38. The. ab- 
sence of internasals is a notable feature of this species, and it would appear 
that they have been absorbed into the anterior nasals, for these shields ex- 
tend remarkably on to the top of the snout. The light vertebral stripe in this 
Specimen is regularly constricted bilaterally at intervals, to forma chain of 
spindle-shaped beads. The maxillary teeth are dubiously 7 in number. 
These are syncranterian and strongly coryphodont as in other members of the 
genus. There is an edentulous space anterior to the teeth. Mr. Leonard is 
to be congratulated on securing so many interesting rarities. 
