772 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XX. 



seem to point to the hatching season being some time in the cold 

 weather or early spring. 



No. 58/10 taken at dusk on 9th July was a gravid female of re- 

 markable size, measuring 20*25 inches of which the tail was 2-5 

 inches. It contained six, large creamy eggs placed in a single 

 longitudinal row and measuring about '8 by -4 inch. The two 

 nearest to the vent were in the left ovary, the remainder in the 

 right. The two examined showed no signs of any embryonic de- 

 velopment. No. 63/10 captured on 26th July was also a large one 

 (18-9 inches in length), and contained an earthworm in gastro. 



Oligodon dorsalis. — One immature specimen (54/10) was found 

 under a flowerpot stand against the wall of my house on 17th 

 June. Its length was 6 inches including the tail, which account- 

 ed for -9 inch. The ventrals were 162 and the subcaudals 40. 

 A full-grown specimen (No. 61110) taken on 16th July was 17-75 

 inches long, tail 2*75 inches, and had 182 ventrals and subcaudals 

 41 pairs. The costal rows in all the specimens from this locality 

 diminish to 13 posteriorly by the absorption of the 3rd and 4th 

 rows above the ventrals as remarked by Major Wall in Vol. XVIII 

 of the Society's Journal. 



In all the specimens collected here the nostril has been found to 

 be pierced in an undivided nasal, and not as stated in the " Fauna 

 of British India" volume on Reptilia. All the specimens have had 

 the bright yew-berry red colour beneath the tail, and the vertebral 

 stripe chestnut. 



Pseudoxenodon maorops.' — Four specimens as below : — 



The costals are reduced from 19 to 17 rows at midbody by the 

 union of the 3rd and 4th rows as remarked by Major "Wall in 

 Volume XVIII, page 321, the next reduction to 15 occurring in 

 the same rows quite close behind midbody. No. 62/10 is abnor- 

 mal in the number of labials, having six on the right and seven on 

 the left instead of the usual eight. No. 47/10 was a gravid female 



