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Colour dusky grey with dark markings. A black band behind the 

 eye, continued down the side and a second behind the gape. 

 Limbs black dotted. Males seasonally above, a fine vermillion red. 

 sometimes passing to yeUow. BeUy, limbs and tail black. 



Length, body 5-50; tail 10.50 = 16 inches. 



Lihabits Maisor, Bangalor and the Nilgiri hills. 



C. Blanfordiana Stoliczka. J. A. S., B., 1872, p. 110. 



0. dorsalis Gray, apud Blanford. Jas. B., 1870, p. 368. 



Head subtrigonal shorter and blunter in young specimens, and 

 parotids much smaller in adult males. Similar in general aspect 

 to dorsalis but with larger scales which only form 80*100 rows 

 round the body. The limbs are larger, and the scales as well as 

 larger, more distinctly imbricate. The scales on the tail are 

 larger than those on the body and the median series above 

 slightly larger than the rest. Colour variable, as in dorsalis olive 

 brown, with some lozenge-shaped spots on the back. 



A brown band from the eye to the shoulder, margined below 

 with white. Tail banded above, dingy white below. Males 

 seasonally Cinnabar red before, black behind. 



Length, body 3-80 ; tail 8-20 = 1200 inches. 



Lihabits Raipur, Chatisgurh, Udipur, Ranchi, Hazaribagh, 

 Parisnath in Western Bengal, and is not improbably the species 

 recorded as, dorsalis from the Panjab and Birbhum. (For full 

 details consult Stoliczka's and Blanford's Papers, 1. c.) 



Phrtnocephaltjs, Kawp. 



Head short depressed, obtusely rounded in front. Nostrils in 

 front of the snout directed upwards and forwards. Body and 

 tail depressed, covered with very small scales. Throat with a 

 transverse fold — ^viviparous. 



P. caudivolvulus Pall. 



P. Stolizhai Steind. Nov. Rep., p. 23, tab. 16, 6, 7. 

 ■Scales of back equal, very smaU. Thirty-one quadrangular 

 upper labials. The hind leg does not reach to the eye. Colour 

 greyish olive, marked with blackish. Adult males with the 



