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Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor,. XXIV, 1922.] 



Locality. Upper Rotung Valley, Abor Hills, Assam frontier, 

 at about 2000 feet elevation. 



Note. Dr. Annandale referred these specimens to 0. ery- 

 throrhachis Wall, but a revision of the species of this genus from 



a/. 



d. 



Text-fig. i. — Oligodon melanozonatus, sp. nov. 

 Lepidosis of head : X 2. 



the material available in the Indian Museum and Bombay collec- 

 tions, convinces me that they represent a species hitherto not 

 described. In 0. ery throrhachis the costals are 15 anteriorly, 13 

 two heads-lengths before the vent. The ventrals are 154 and 

 subcaudals 64. The supralabials are 7. 



