SNAKES OF CEYLON. 



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posterior sublinguals, and about twice as broad as those 

 shields, touching two scales behind. Cuneate : A small scale 

 wedged in between the 4th and 5th infralabials. (Fig. 87.) 



Fig. 8 7. — Naia tripudians. 

 (Life size.) 



Gostals : Vertebrals and last three rows rectiform ; the 

 intermediate rows oblique. Vertebrals, breadth half or 



