io6 Miscellanea. [Vol, II, 



Length about 2 feet (stiffened by spirit), the tail 3I inches 

 Costals two headslengths behind head 21, midbod}^ 21, two heads- 

 lengths before vent 17. In the step from 21 to 19 the second and 

 third rows above the ventrals coalesce on the left side, and the 

 third disappears on the right side ; in the step from 19 to 17, the 

 fourth and fifth row^s above the ventrals coalesce. The last row 

 is not or barely enlarged. No keels and no apical pits. Ventrals : 

 169, angulate. Anal entire. Subcaudals : 41, divided. Rostral : 

 in contact with eight shields, the sutures made with the anterior 

 nasals rather largest ; portion visible above equals its distance to 

 the frontal. Internasals : four, subequal, in a transverse series, 

 the median projected backwards so as to separate about two-thirds 

 of the length of the prsefrontals. Prsefrontals : a pair ; the suture 

 between them about half the praefronto-frontal suture ; in contact 

 with median and lateral internasals, postnasal, loreal, prseocular, 

 supraocular and frontal. Frontal : touches six shields, the sutures 

 made with the supraoculars largest, about one- third greater than 

 those with the parietals, which are the smallest. Supraoculars : 

 length subequal to frontal, breadth two- thirds frontal. Nasals : 

 divided in contact with ist and 2nd labial b}^ equal sutures, the 

 posterior subdivided into two superposed parts ; the anterior is 

 much the largest ; the nostril occupies the upper two-thirds of 

 the suture, the suture runs to the 2nd labial. Loreal : one, height 

 rather exceeds length. Prseoculars : two, the lower small and 

 cuneate, wedged between the 3rd and 4tli labials. Postoculars : 

 two. Temporals : two, the lower in contact with the 6th and 7tli 

 labials. Labials : eight, the 4th and 5th touching the eye, the 

 btli and 7th largest, and subequal. Infralabials : five, the 5th 

 largest, broader than the posterior sublingual and in contact with 

 the scales posteriorly ; the suture between the first about half 

 that l)etween the anterior sublingual fellows. Anterior sublinguals : 

 longer than posterior. Posterior sublinguals : touching the 4th and 

 5th infralabials. Colour : light stone colour with sixteen large, 

 dark dorsal marks, indented before and behind vertebrally, and 

 midcostally. In the latter region the indentations sometimes 

 meet, and detach fragments. These marks are well defined with 

 darker margins. A pale vertebral streak, and a pale vertebral 

 supracaudal streak. Head obscurely mottled above. Belly whitish 

 with somewhat obscure, lateral, dark roundish spots with a tendency 

 to be distributed on alternate ventrals. Tail Ijeneath whitish, 

 unspotted 



It is very unusual for the suture from the nostril to run to the 

 2ndJabial in land snakes. It does so in the genus Callophis, but 

 I cannot recall another instance. In the sea snakes (Hydrophiidse) 

 it is the rule, and has very few exceptions. 



The head was badly damaged, so that the head outlines may 

 be somewhat faulty, but the relationship of shields is accurate. 



F. Wall, Majoy, I.M.S. 



