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frequently dismount to use the telescope, and when once game is sighted the 
yaks are left to graze in some sheltered spot. 
A. Le M. B, 
(From “ The Field,” Vol. 94.) 
No, XX,—DIPSAS CYANEA. 
With reference to our note on the occurrence of Diépsas cyanea in 
Burma, I have lately been informed by Mr, H. Hampton that, since the 
publication of the volume on ‘‘ Reptilia,” in 1890, Boulanger reported in the 
Ann, Mus, Civ. Genova, Serie 2nd, Vol, XIII., 1893, that Dipsas cyanea was 
recorded from Tavoy by W. L. Sclater. 
G. H. EVANS, Vety.-Major. 
RanGoon, 14th October, 1900. 
No, XXI.—DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SNAKE OF THE GENUS 
ABLABES FROM BURMA. 
By G. A. BoutanGer, F.RS. 
ABLABES HAMPTONT, 
Snout short, convex, profile curved from the frontal region to the lip; 
eye three-fourths the length of the snout; rostral once and-a-half as broad 
as deep, just visible from above; nasal divided ; inter-nasals a little longer 
than broad, alittle shorter than the pre-frontals; frontal once and two- 
thirds as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 
shorter than the parietals ; loreal small, longer than deep ; a large pre-ocular, 
with a second very small shield below it ; two post-oculars, temporals 142; 
eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye; four lower labials in 
contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are much longer than the 
posterior, Scales smooth, in 15 rows, Ventrals, 194, and undivided; sub- 
caudals,76. Uniform greenish-grey above (in spirit), white beneath and on 
the upper lip. 
Total length, 1,050 millim. ; tail, 220. ; 
This species, which is closely allied to A, dorie, Blgr., differing in the 
broader rostral shield, was discovered by Mr, Herbert Hampton at Magok, 
on the Irrawady, about twelve miles north of Mandalay, Together with the 
snake, which I have the pleasure of naming, Mr, Hampton has presented to 
the British Museum examples of the following reptiles obtained by him at the 
same place, which are interesting from the point of view of the geographical 
distribution :—G'ymnodactylus khasiensis, Jerdon; Trirhinopholis nuchalis, 
Blgr.; Lycodon fasciatus, And,; Simotes violaceus, var. multifasciatus, Jan, p 
Naaa tripudians, var, ceca, Gmel._—(From the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, seventh series, vol. 6, p. 409, 1900). 
