210 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (August, 1905. 
DRYOCALAMUS TRISTRIGATUS.* 
A. small specimen of this rare snake from the Malay Archipelago. 
TROPIDONOTUS KHASIENSIS.* 
A eo, een from Burma, obtained by one of the Museum 
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MACROPISTHODON HIMALAYANUS. 
Tropidonotus himalayanus, Boulenger, Faun, Ind., Rept., p» 347, 
Dissection of the jaws of a specimen lately received from Sureil, 
Darjeeling, (Major A. Alcock) shows that this cere holon the 
genus Macropisthodon. Fourteen small teeth are foll wed in the - 
maxillary, after an interspace, by two large, backward-directed 
fangs. In T. subminiatus, the condition is somewhat sim b 
e interspace is not so clearly marked. Evidently the separation 
Ree i the two genera is not a natural one, but t the great number of 
COLUBER RADIATUS. 
A specimen from Cuttack, Orissa, (R. T. Crighton). 1 am 
not aware that the species has hitherto iad patios Fe from er 
India. The late Prof. J. Wood-Mason corresponded Wi 
the donor about the specimen, which has been in the Museum fot 
ABLABES BALIODIRUS.* 
Specimens from Java and the Malay Archipelago. 
ABLABES GILGITICUS,* sp. NOV. 
iagnosis,— Habit slender ; head small ; tail short, ending ina 
well developed spine.! Rosiral deeper than broad, visible ers 
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the internasals; frontal as long as its distance from ; 
much shorter than the parietals; one pr @ postocuin’ s 
loreal large, much longer d temporals 1+2; 7 uppe 
similar spine occurs in other members of a genus, notably A. rappii 
-bat is not so large in any Indian form as in the new species. 
