2S0 W. L. Sclater — Notes on the Snakes in the Indian Museum. [No. 3, 



3. Teleufco- and nredospores of Phr. Laceianum, x 220 and x 350. 



4. Teleufcospore of Xenodoehus Clarhianum, x 350. 



5. Aecidiospore of the same x 350. 



6. Peridial cells of Aecidiuin orhiculare, x 350. 



7. Peridial cells and aecidiospores of Aec. Cunninghamianum, a x 350, 



h X 220. 



8, Peridial cells of ^ec.^aj;escens, x 350 



9. Teleuto- and nredospores of Puce. Ellisii, x 350. 

 *10. Teleutospox'e of Puce. Wattiana, x 350. 



Plate V. 



11. T«letito- and aecidiospores and promycelinm of Fhr^ quinqueloculare, 



X 350. 



12. Teleutospores of Pitcc. excelsa, x 350. 



13. Teleutospores of Fucc. occulta, x 350. 



*14. Teleutospores of Puce. Melntirianus, x 350. 



15. Uredospores and paraphyses of Melampsora ciliata, x 350. 



16. Teleutospores of Puce, crassa, x 350. 



17. Teleutospores of Puec. caudata, x 350. 



18. Teleutospores of Puce. Castagnei, x 350. 



19. Teleuto- and uredospores of Uromyces Vignae, x 350. 



X. — Notes on the Collection of Snakes in the Indian Museum with descrip- 

 tions of several new species. — By W. L. Sclater, M. A., Deputy 

 Sttperintendent of the Indian Museum. 



[Eeceived 1st August, 1891 ; read 5th August, 1891,] 



(With Plate VI.) 



The following notes were drawn up while critically examining and 

 reari'anging the collection of Snakes in the Indian Museum ; the collec- 

 tion is a fairly large one though there are many Indian species still 

 unrepresented, and I should be very glad if any one would assist me 

 to fill up the gaps especially in the Southern Indian and Ceylonese 

 forms in which the Museum is specially deficient. 



The number of Snakes desci-ibed by Mr. Boulenger in his work on 

 the Reptiles of the Indian Empire and Ceylon amounts in all to 264, of this 

 number the Indian Museum possesses examples of 196, so that no less 

 than 68 are still wanting to complete the Indian Museum Collection ; of 

 the 68 deficiencies, however, 22 at least of the species have only been got 

 once and are represented in the British Museum or elsewhere usually by 

 a single specimen. 



* For descriptions of these, see J. A. S. B., Vol. LIX, Pt. II, No. 2, 1890. 



