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they again reduce to 13, the 4th row again blending with the 5th (more 

 rarely the 3rd). The ventrals are 204, 206, 209 and 212, the anal divided 

 and the subcaudals 96, 91, 94, and 96. The body dorsally is nearly uniform 

 light brownish, the scales basally rather darker and the head is of a duskier 

 shade in the adult. In the young the head is black, but not quite so black 

 as in typical persica and toalteri. Under-parts uniform whitish. It seems 

 to be most close to persica but differs in the greater number of subcaudals, 

 in having 13 scale rows anteriorly, and in the colour of the adult. 



Dipsadomorphus trigonotus (Schneider). 



Three specimens from Kirani, Sharigh, and Jhalawan. None of these 

 conform to the variety mekmoceplialus (Annandale, Jour. Asiatic. Soc, 

 Bengal, 1904, p. 209) first mentioned by Dr. Annandale and which 

 appears peculiar to the Perso-Baluchistan area. The ventrals and sub- 

 caudals of two are 236 + 80 and 232 + 84. 



Psammophis leithi (Giinther). 



A single specimen from Duki. The scales are 17 two heads-lengths be- 

 hind the head, 17 in mid-body, and 11 two heads-lengths before the anus. 

 In the step from 17 to 15 the 4th row above the ventrals disappears being 

 absorbed into 3rd on one side, and into the 5th on the other. In the step 

 from 15 to 13 the row next to the vertebral is absorbed, and from 13 to 11 

 the 3rd row above the ventrals disappears. The ventrals are 172, anal 

 entire, and subcaudals 98. There is a single temporal, and 8 supralabials, 

 the 4th and 5th touching the eye. The belly is uniform saffron-yellow. 



Psammophis scliokari. (Forskal). 



Several specimens from Quetta, Toba, Marachak, Jhalawan, Kishingi, 

 Chaman and Khost. 



The specimen from Khost is exactly like specimens of condanarus in 

 colouration, there being a median and two lateral narrow stripes of buff, 

 the median involving the vertebral row only, and the lateral the contiguous 

 halves of the 3rd and 4th rows above the ventrals. The specimen from 

 Marachak is very similar, but the buff stripes are broader, the median 

 involving the vertebral, and half the adjacent rows, and the lateral invol- 

 ves the 4th and half the 3rd and 5th rows. The striping is not so well 

 defined and conspicuous as in the previous specimen. The rest have a dark 

 vertebral stripe involving the vertebral, and the adjacent half rows, and 

 there is a series of blackish narrow apical stripes on the scales of the 6th 

 row. There are no light stripes at all anteriorly, but the buff stripes 

 typical of condanarus are obscurely indicated posteriorly. 



It seems to me very dubious whether all these specimens should be 

 considered schohari, I incline to the opinion that there may be two species 

 judging from the peculiarities of the subcaudals, the supralabials, and 





