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rows above the ventrals. Ventrals 192, slightly ungulate. Anal 

 divided. Suhcauclah 54 divided. Colour chocolate, with short white 

 linear streaks copiously distributed dorsally. Head blackish-brown 

 with white streaks. Labials white. Belly yellowish-white, with a row 

 of lateral spots one on each ventral. Length about 1 foot 1-| inches. 

 It thus approaches nearest to the effrenis of the Malayan fauna, in 

 that there is no loreal ; the scales are in 1 7 rows, and three labials 

 touch the eye. The only other Indian species without a loreal is 

 airojmrpureus. 



Lycodon macldnnom. ( X 3 ) 



