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angle of the scales. Tail encircled with equal verticillate keeled 

 scales. Colour variable. Bronze, with four rows of dark spots 

 down the back, a weU-defined pale streak separating the outer 

 rows. A pale median streak is sometimes present. Stohczka 

 describes four white bands on his specimens. Two rows of black 

 dots are also usually present. The type was from Mhow and 

 measured. Body 15; tail 2'25 = 3'75 inches. Adult specimens 

 reach to nearly five inches. 



0. monticola Beddome. Mad. Monthly J. of Med. Scien. 

 PsevdophiopsBeddomei, J erdon. P.A.S., B.,Marchl870,p.72. 



" Nostrils lateral in the lower part of a large nasal shield, 

 with two small postnasals, the lower one the larger, but both 

 together not equalling the nasal: loreal region concave; loreals 

 two, the posterior much the larger, and separated from the eye by 

 several small shields, nine upper labials, the fifth very large and 

 under the eye. Eight lower labials all nearly equal. Medial 

 lower labial very large, six pair of chia shields (exactly the 

 same as ia P. Jerdoni, the three first pair forming a suture, the 

 sixth very small. Anterior frontals one smaU pair about the size 

 of the nasal or rarely three shields, the intermediate one being the 

 smallest, rarely only two. Vertical, superciliaries, and occipitals 

 as in P. Jerdoni ; but the shield between the first occipitals is 

 rather larger than in that species, and aU the, head shields are 

 longitudinally plicated (as in P. Jerdoni) but more warty. 

 Femoral pores 10 on each side, none in the prseanal region, a 

 single large pr^anal shield with a second one behind it about 

 half its size (as in P. Jerdoni). Scales of the back in 25 — 62 

 rows, acutely keeled except in the two rows adjoining the 

 abdominal scales. Keels more prominent towards and on the tail 

 and forming continuous raised ridges. Abdominal scales large and 

 smooth in six rows. Colour uniform browilish above, with 

 sometimes a paler indistinct streak along each side of the back 

 from the postoccipitals to the tail and a more prominent whitish 

 streak along each side from the ear to the hiad leg. Belly 

 uniform whitish." 



