430 F. Stoliczka — On Indian and Burmese Ophidians. [No. 4, 



The single specimen is in all probability from India, but with- 

 out any specified locality ; it is in the old collection of the Asiat. 

 Soc, now held in trust by the Indian Museum. 



Figs. 5, 6, 7, side, top and lower views of the head aud neck, enlarged ; 

 fig. 8, under view of the tail, natural size. 



Fam. Oligodontia^ . 



SlMOTES BICATENATUS, (I. E., p. 217). 



Not an uncommon species in Pegu, Oachar, Assam and in Lower 

 Bengal extending northwards to the base of the Sikkim Hima- 

 laya. The coloration is very variable, as noticed by Theobald in 

 his Catalogue of Burmese Reptiles (Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool. vol. x* 

 The brown longitudinal bands generally disappear in old age, par- 

 ticularly in Burmese examples. Most of the specimens, I saw, 

 have 2 + 2 (instead of 1 -f 2) temporals,* and the lower prse-ocular 

 is sometimes almost obsolete. 



Family Colubridje. 

 Ablabes collaris, (I. E., p. 228). 

 The loreal is sometimes minute, barely frd the size of the prae- 

 ocular. Full grown male specimens have the edges of the ventrals 

 often purplish, similarly coloured to Trop. platyceps. 



Mob. Assam, and Northern Bengal, North West Provinces, and 

 extending from Sikkim along the Himalayas westward to the Sutlej 

 valley, and up to elevations of about 10000 feet. 



COMPSOSOMA RADIATUM, (I. E., p. 243). 



This characteristically Malayan species is tolerably common at 

 the base of the Sikkim hills and in the low valleys. I have 

 obtained specimens 6-3- feet in length from the Sikkim Terai. 

 Several had the two last maxillary teeth very little larger, and 

 closer together, than the rest, but the median teeth were usually 

 not, or scarcely, enlarged. 



Compsosoma Hodgsoni, (I. E., p. 246). 

 I have received this species from Kumaon, through my friend 

 Mr. Lawder. Last year (Journ. A. S. B., xxxix, pt. ii, p. 189), 

 I recorded the occurrence of the species from the neighbourhood of 



* Compare Anderson in Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 170. 



