1871.] F. Stoliczka — On Indian and Burmese Ophidians. 439 



p. 96, but the head is uniform greenish brown. The two light 

 dorsal bands, noted in the Simla specimens, become, however, 

 apparent on the neck, uniting again on the posterior £ of the 

 body into a single broad, pale yellowish brown band, which disap- 

 pears at the root of the tail, the latter being uniform olive brown 

 above. 



Dr. Giinther has described from Sind J?s. Leithii, a very closely 

 allied species having the median light dorsal band single along the 

 whole body. I do not think it improbable that this form may 

 be shewn to be only a variety of Ps. condamirus, (comp. Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, London, for 1869, p. 505), for the few differences in the 

 structure of the head shields and scales appear to be such as are 

 often liable to variation. 



Fam. DipsadievE. 

 Dipsas Popsteni, (I. P., p. 309). 



This South Indian form has also been found in the Bundle- 

 cund, and I have received it from Birbhum, and from the base of the 

 Sikkim hills at Pankabaree. A specimen from the latter locality 

 measures 58 inches ; it has 25 scales on neck and 23 round the 

 middle of the body ; temporals 2 + 3, two only being in contact 

 with the post-oculars, ventrals 268, sub-caudals 130. General 

 colour above brownish olive, two blackish ovate spots on neck be- 

 hind the occiput, followed by somewhat irregular transverse black 

 bands with their angles directed forwards, becoming less distinct 

 after the first third of the length of the body, and at the side 

 replaced by dark reticulations ; a blackish streak from each eye to 

 the angle of the mouth, but no streak along the occiput, as usually 

 present in South Indian specimens ; below olive grey, lighter on 

 the chin, and further on with a row of white spots on each side, 

 3 or 4 ventral shields distant. 



The specimen had been killed near a house after having a short 

 time previously feasted upon a young chicken. 



DlPSAS HEXAGONOTITS, Blyth. 



Dr. Anderson has traced the adult of this species, the young of 

 which I described and figured in J. A. S. B., vol. xxxix, p. 198, 

 pi. xi, fig. 4, (Comp. Proc. Zool. S., Lond., for 1871, p. 185). 



