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Frontal -Longer than broad. 



Parietals— Large and confluent with the ant. temporals and thus coming into 

 contact with the 6th labial on both sides. 



Supraroclars — Single ; less broad than frontal. 



Loreals — Present, single. 



Autoculars — R 1, L. 1, reaching well on to crown. 



Postoculars — JZ> 2, L 2. 



Labials E8, L 8, progressively increasing in size from 1 to 6. 7th and 

 8th very small and separate ; a large labial-like scale from the labial margin 

 on both sides ; 4th only enters eye R and L. 



Temporals — Absent. 



Eye — Small, as much anterior as lateral, with decided inclination upwards. 



Pwp'Z— Round (Sub-elliptical ?). 



Ant. Chin Shields— In contact with four labials. 



Post Chin Shields— Absent. 



Coloration — Ventrally beautifully mottled with buff and dull olive-green, 

 the mottling acquiring a distinct arrangement laterally so that a zig-zag buff 

 line is formed with dull olive in green spots below the arches, The superior 

 angles of the zig-zag are produced upwards forming a limb which passes on 

 to the back. Many of these limbs meet their corresponding fellows of the 

 opposite side across the back to form complete buff arches ; others end in con- 

 vex extremities on the vertebral region. The intervening parts are dull olive- 

 green. 



Specimen No. 2 differs only in the following points. Captured 7th Nov., 

 1898. Length, 2 feet G| inches; tail, 4| inches. Body only laterally compressed 

 at back part, 



Scales — Neck, 31-32, smooth ; mid.-corporeal, 29, smooth ; post-corporeal, 

 20, smooth. 



Ventrals — 153, no divided pre-anals. 

 Suh-caudals — 48, double. 



Coloration — Ventral region same as No, 1 ; the buff arches on dorsum are 

 replaced by a pale shade of dull olive-green, picked out with an ill-defined 

 outline of a darker shade of olive-green than rest of body. 



Notes ivorthy of remark on both specimens — Absence of Ant. temporals on 

 both sides. Very small 7th and 8th labials on both sides. 



F. WALL, Surg.-Capt., I.M.S. 

 Agea, February, 1898. 



No. III.- A PANTHER WITH 20 TOES. 



I write to ask if the above peculiarity has been before brought to notice, as 

 during a long acquaintance with panthers and tigers I have never observed it 

 myself. The panther, an average size female, was shot a few days ago, and 



