4i4l MR. W. TIIEOIJALD, JUN., ON THE 



Family COLUBEID^. 

 Coluber, Idnnceus. 

 C. NuTHALLi, Theobald. 



C. pictus, Carlyle, MS. (in part). 



Squamis laevibus, ordinibus viginti tribus positis. Labialibus 

 superioribus novem, quinto sextoque orbem tangentibus. 

 Anteoculari uno, valde magno, verticale tangente. Postocu- 

 laribus duobus, parvis. Loreali parvo, longiore quam lato. 

 Verticali magno. Superciliaribua valde maguis, verticale 

 psene sBquantibus. Nare parvo, inter duas magnas squamas. 

 Duobus paribus scutorum mentalium suba;qualibus, et sutu- 

 ram formantibus cum septem labialibus. Septimo labiali 

 inferiore multo maximo. Colore rubro-cinereo, cum quatuor 

 ordinibus macularum nigrarum rbomboidalium, singulis ma- 

 culis pallidum ocellum includentibus. Ad postremum corpus 

 lise macular obscura) fiunt, earumque loco quatuor linea) fusca) 

 latasque substitutae sunt, duabus latis medianis, duabusque 

 angustioribus inferius positis. Macula ovali nigra inter 

 oculum rictumque. 



Habitat Pegu, teste Col. Nutliall, a quo specimen unicum Mas. 

 As. Soc. Bang, donatum fuit. 



Scales smooth, in twenty-three rovi's. Upper labials nine, the 

 fifth and sixth entering the orbit. Anteocular one, very large, 

 touching the vertical. Postoculars two, small. Loi'cal small, 

 longer than broad. On one side a small piece is detached from 

 the fourth upper labial and enters the orbit. Vertical large, with 

 subparallel sides. Superciliaries very large, almost equalling tlie 

 vertical. Nostril small, between two large nasals. Lower labials 

 twelve. Two subequal pairs of chin-shields forming a suture with 

 seven labials. Seventh lower labial much the largest. Colour 

 reddish-grey, with four rows of elongate, rhomboidal, intensely 

 black spots, each enclosing a pale ocellus. Tlicse spots fade to- 

 wards the hinder part of the trunk, and on the tail are replaced 

 by foiu" deep-brown bands — that is to say, two broad dorsal, and 

 two narrow lateral ones, separated by narrow white bands. A 

 conspicuous oval black spot from eye to gape. 



The type of this description is in the museum of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, and was forwarded from Birma by Col. Nutliall 



