MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



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contact with Ist or 1st and 2 labials. Loreal. — One-half the length of the 

 nasals. Praocular. — One. Postoculars. — Three. Temporals. — One or two an- 

 teriorly. Supralabials 8, the 3rd, 4th and 5th touching the eye. Posterior 

 sublinguals longer than interior, in contact with the 5th, 6th and 7th infra- 

 labials. Costals. — Two headslengths, behind head 19, midbody 19, two 

 headslengths before vent 17. In the reduction from 19 to 17 the 4th row 

 is absorbed into the 3rd or 5th keels present, in all rows posteriorly. 

 Ventrals. — -173 to 199. Anal. — Divided. Subcaudals. — 80 to 88 divided. 



Colour. — Olive-brown or olive-green dorsally with 6 series of indistinct 

 pale roundish spots arranged quincuncially, the median most indistinct. 

 Head dark olive green, or brown above. A white moustache on the upper 

 lip to behind the gape where it may or may not meet a whitish lateral 

 nuchal streak. A small round pale spot on each parietal near the middle, 

 and close to the inter-parietal suture. Chin heavily powdered with black. 

 Belly yellowish (whitish ?) heavily powdered laterally, the powdering in- 

 creasing towards the median line posteriorly. 



The differences between chrysargus and firthi are as follows, but as it is 

 extremely probable that specimens of both are included under the former 

 name by Mr. Boulenger in his Catalogue, I give the characters present in 

 12 specimens of chrysargus in the Indian Museum — all from Tenasserim — 

 including the skull of a Tenasserim specimen in my collection : — 



* 10 Labials, the 5th, 6th and 7th touching the eye in one specin^en on the left 



side. 

 t In both species there is a g-ap at the back of the maxilla followed by two 

 enlarged teeth. 



Almoka, 25*^ April 1914. 



f. "wall, c.m.z.s., p.l.s., 



Major, i.m.s. 



No. XXXI.— A NEW SNAKE FROM BALUCHISTAN. 

 DIPS AD OMORPHVS J OLL YI. 



Our Society has lately received through Captain Jolly, I. M.S., from 

 Kacha Thana, Baluchistan, among other snakes, a single specimen of the 

 gentis Dipsadomorphus that deserves recognition as a species new to science. 

 Though the head is rather badly damaged, the lepidosis on both sides is 

 open to accurate observation. I propose to associate it with the name of 

 its discoverer. 



Description. — Rostral. — Touches 6 shields ; the rostro-nasal and rostro- 

 internasal sutures subequal. Internasals. — A pair; the suture between 

 them about | to | that between the prsefrontal fellows, and about | the 



