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strongly compressed, with dorsal row of scales enlarged through- 
out, scales in rows of uneven numbers (19 in ty i i 
pits; caudals divided. Palate toothed ; solid maxillary teeth few 
(6 in type), subequal, followed, after a short interspace, by a pair 
of moderately sized, almost vertical grooved fangs; mandibular 
teeth subequal. 
Right maxillary of Dipsadoides decipiens, 
DIPSADOIDES DECIPIENS,* sp. nov. 
a 
=f 
ternasals larger than prefrontals ; frontal longer than broad, as 
long as its distance from snout, slightly shorter than parietals; a 
large preocular and a small postocular ; supraocular very large ; 
loreal deeper than long ; temporals 2+ 2; eight upper labials, the 
With their neighbours. Body scales narrow, leaf-shaped, slightly 
oblique on neck strongly imbricate ; in 19 rows; the dorsal row 
152. Coloration—dorsal surface and sides pale brown profusely 
Spotted and marbled with dark brown and, less profusely, with dull 
yellow; a large number of irregular dark bars on the dorsal sur- 
Ventral surface dull yellow marbled posteriorly with dark 
brown ; chin and throat spotted with dark brown. 
Dimensions— 
Total Length oo we SOU thm. 
Length of Tail... w+ 265 4, 
Which it bore a close external resemblance, It is one of the many 
interesting species received from the Royal Natural History Society 
of Batavia, 
Bencarvs sixpanvs*, Blgr. 
B. sindanus, Boulenger, Journ. Bombay N, H. Soc. XI, 1897- 
1898, p. 73, pl. 
