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Lepidosis — Rostral. — Touches 5 shields, the nasal sutures largest. 

 Internasal — Single. Proefrontals — Two, the suture between them 

 subequal to the prasfronto-frontal ; in contact with internasal, 

 nasal, loreal, preeocular and svipraoculai'S. Frontal — Touches 6 

 shields, the supraocular sutures longest. Siqyraoeulars — Length 

 and breadth rather less than frontal. Nasal — Semi-divided, 

 touching the 1st only of the supralabial series usually, the 

 2nd also sometimes. Loreal — Single, about as long as high. 

 Prceoculars — One. Postoculars — Three. Temporals — Two, elon- 

 gate, the lower touching the 6th, 7th and 8th supralabials. 

 Supralabials — 8, with the 3rd and 4th touching the eye, or 9 with 

 4th and 6th touching the eye. InfralaUals — 7, the 5th, 6th and 

 7th normally touching the posterior sublinguals, 7th largest and 

 touching 3 scales behind. Sublinguals — Two pairs, the posterior 

 rather the larger. Gostals — Tavo headslengths behind head 19, 

 midbody 19, two headslengths before vent 17. Where the rows 

 reduce from 1 9 to 1 7 the 4th row above the ventrals is absorbed 

 into the one above or below. (This step usually well behind mid- 

 body sometimes occurs at midbody or even slightly before this) ; 

 keels distinct except in the last two rows in midbody where they 

 are absent ; apical pits wanting. Ventrals — 139 to 149 in Ban- 

 galore specimens, 145 to 157 in Fyzabad (Boulenger 129 to 151). 

 Anal — Divided. Subcaudals — Divided, 63 to 82 (Boulenger 55 to 

 85). 



Anomalies. — I have twice seen the internasal partially divided 

 posteriorly in Indian specimens. I have twice seen 3 pr£efrontals 

 in a transverse series, the median rather the smallest. Once there 

 were but 2 postoculars on one side. Once the last ventral was 

 divided and once the 35th, 36th and 37th ventrals were divided. 

 In one example there were only 7 supralabials, the 3rd and 4th 

 touching the eye. 



Dentition* — Maxillary — 19 to 21, gradually but progressively 

 increasing in size posteriorly with no gap. Palatine — 11, sub- 

 equal, and about the same size as the median maxillary. Pteryfjoid — 

 17 to 18, subequal, and about the same size as palatine. Mandi- 



From 2 Fyzabad skulls. 



