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another below it on the sides. Belly white, salmon red on the 

 centre. Scuta with marginal dots. Also uniform brick red, 

 some black edged scales alone showing. Belly yellowish with 

 ill-defined spots at the ends of the scuta. Head with the usual 

 symmetrical markings. 



Grows to 31'5 inches. (TaU 4.) 



Inhabits Pegu and Tenasserim (Theob.), Garo HiUs and Cal- 

 cutta (Anderson). 



S. albocinctus. Cantor. 



Two or three prseoculars, the upper much the largest. Two 

 postoculars. 8 upper labials, the fourth and fifth entering the 

 orbit. Colour brown with 18 white dark edged cross bands and 

 a pair of fine black transverse lines in each interspace. Head 

 with the usual markings which are pale and dark edged. Ven- 

 trals alternately marked with quadrangular brown spots. 



Inhabits the Khasi hiUs. 



S. amabilis, Giinther. An. & Mag., 1818, Vol. I, p. 416. 



Scales in 19 rows. One prse and two postoculars. Loreal square. 

 7 upper labials, the third and fourth entering the ofbit. Anal 

 entire. Back with forty-one narrow black edged yellow cross 

 bars, with others less distinct on the tail. Bands one scale broad 

 or a trifle more. Beneath white with an irregular series of 

 blackish spots along either side of beUy. 



Length 10 inches. 



Inhabits the Arakan hills. 



Family Colubrid^. 



Body moderate. Head distinct from the neck. Eye moderate. 

 Sub-caudals divided. A mental groove. 



Group CoroneUina. Ground Colubrides. 

 Colubrine snakes of small size and smooth scitles. 



Ablabes. 



Body cylindrical, somewhat slender. Head distinct from the 

 neck. Rather depressed, of moderate length. Eye moderate with 



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