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postoculars. Scales without apical groove. 8 upper labials, the 

 fourth and fifth entering the orbit. Colour white with 38 broad 

 round dark brown cross bands, twice or thrice as broad as the 

 interspace. Interspace marked with brown. Collar as in ni/m- 

 fha. Below white. 



Grows to 21 inches. (Tail 4.) 



Inhabits the AnamaUay hills, Waltair, &c. 



CoRONELLA, Laurenti. 



Form cylindrical not compressed. Eye moderately large with 

 round pupU. Two pairs of frontals. Two nasals. One loreal. 

 One prseocular. Scales smooth. Sub-caudaLs bifid. 



C. orientalis, Gunther. 

 Rostral rather broader than high. Frontals of moderate size. 

 Vertical not quite twice as long as broad, with lateral margins 

 parallel and with a pointed posterior end. Occipitals not much 

 larger than the vertical. Loreal square. Two postoculars, the 

 lower between the eye, and the fifth and sixth labials. 8 upper 

 labials, the fourth and fifth entering the orbit. Anal bifid. 

 Scales in 17 rows, without apical grooves. Colour greyish 

 brown. Two indistinct narrow dark lateral streaks on either 

 side posteriorly, coalescing on the tail. A very narrow white 

 collar on the neck. Belly white, with sub-quadrangular black- 

 ish spots. 



Grows to 11 inches. (Tail 2.) 



Inhabits the Dekkan, (Col. Sykes.) 



Ntmphophidium, Ounther. 



Characters oi odontom/ubs, but the three last maxillary teeth 

 very strong and trenchant. Two bony prominences project 

 through the mucous membrane of the mouth, one behind the 

 other. 



N. maculatum, Giinther. 

 Rostral rather broader than high. Prsefrontals quadrangular, 

 obliquely truncated in front, more than half as large as the post- 



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