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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SNAKE FOUND IN TRAVAN- 
CORE, BY Mz, 8S. DIGHTON. PIRMAAD. 
By G. A. Boutencer (Brit. Museum, Naturau History). 
(With a Plate.) 
(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 18th Feb., 1894.) 
DIPsAS DIGHTONI. 
Anterior platine and mandibular teeth enlarged; eye shorter 
than the snout. rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; 
internasals broader than long, shorter than the preefrontals ; frontal as 
long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 
shorter than the parietals ; lonal longer than deep ; a single preeocular 
reaching the upper surface of the head ; two postoculars : temporals 
small, scale-like, 2 and 3 ; eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth 
entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 
thin shields, which are as long as the posterior. Body strongly 
compressed ; scales in 23 rows, not very oblique, the vertebral scales 
scarcely enlarged on the anterior half of the body, longer than broad 
on the posterior half. Ventrals 241; anal entire ; subcaudals 95, 
Pale reddish-brown above, without any dark markings ; a series of 
salmon-coloured blotches along the back; head pale brown, with 
minute blackish dots ; lower parts yellowish, finely dotted with brown; 
the outer ends of the ventrals salmon-pink. 
Total length 1,100 millimetres (8 feet, 8 inches) ; tail 220 milli- 
metres (84 inches). 
I am indebted to Mr. H.S. Ferguson for a single example, a female, 
of this fine new snake, which was obtained by Mr. 8. Dighton at 
Pirmaad, at an altitude of 3,300 feet, in January, 1893. 
