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postfrontals are in contact with the vertical, and the ventrals are not 

 distinctly angulate. The two forms, however, are scarcely separable, 

 as I have shown ('Eastern Persia,' ii. p. 413). The posterior 

 maxillary tooth in the Dehbid specimen is but little if at all larger 

 than those in front. 



Zamenis ventrimaculatus. 



Bushire and Shiraz. 



The specimen from Bushire is the ordinary Persian form with 

 imperfect cross bands. That from Shiraz is Giinther's var. C (Z. 

 rhodorachis, Jan). 



Zamenis caspius. 



Zargoom (I believe this to be Zirgan, 15 miles north-east of 

 Shiraz). 



The coloration is rather peculiar : each scale has a brown longi- 

 tudinal band in the middle, and is pale on both sides. There are no 

 spots on the back. The lower parts posteriorly are dull orange ; 

 probably in life they were bright orange or scarlet. 



Zamenis ravergieri. 

 One specimen from Dehbid. 



Tropidonotus hydrvs. 



The single specimen (which has no locality marked) is one of the 

 exceptional individuals with but two praeoculars. 



CCELOPELTIS LACERTINA. 



Shiraz. 



A large specimen over 5 feet in length, with only seventeen rows 

 of scales round the body instead of nineteen. A young individual 

 from Constantinople, also with only seventeen rows of scales, is 

 figured by Jan. 



*Hydrophis cyanocincta. 



One specimen. Precise locality not marked. 

 This is doubtless from the Persian Gulf. 



*Hydrophis temporalis, sp. nov. 



H. capite medwcriter longo latoque, corpore longiusciilo, squamis 

 subimbricatis, post medium tuberculo ininuio ornatis, in series 

 29 longitudinales paullo post caput, 33 in medio corpore ordi- 

 nal is ; saitis ventralibns 354, bituberculatis, fere cequalibtts, 

 squamas laterales duplo excedentibus, prceanalibus 6 ; nasalibus 

 longioribus quani lata, supralubialibus tertio quartoque infra ocu- 

 lumpositis, temporalibus denique duobus utrinque maximis, margini 

 externo cujusque occipitalis contiguis, anteriore altiore quam 

 latum etfere vel omnino ad labium descendente. Dorsum maculis 

 rhomboideis transversis circ. 35 ornatum, postice evanescentibus. 



Gangestun. 



Head of moderate size and width. Neck and body slightly eloa- 



