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Group Colubrina. True Colubrides. 

 Snakes of moderate or large size, fairly proportioned, being 

 neither very slender, stout or flattened. Teeth generally sub- 

 equal and scales keeled. 



Cadmus, Theobald. 



Head thick cuneiform. Body stout. Scales smooth in 27 

 rows. Anal bifid. Eye moderate. Pupil round. 



C. cuneiformis, Theob. (J. A. S., B., 1868, Extra No. p. 58.) 

 Rostral large, running weU back on the top of the head and 

 encroaching between the praefrontals. Nostril between two 

 nasals. Prsefrontals very small. Postfrontals large. Loreal 

 small, triangular with apex between prse and postfrontals. Prae- 

 ocular one, large. Postoculars three. 7 upper labials, only the 

 fourth enters the orbit. Head high, shelving in front, pointed, 

 stout, and cuneform. A large pair of chin shields in contact 

 with five labials, followed by a small pair. Colour yellowish 

 olive brown. An obsolete band of spots on either side of the 

 spine, and below, a second strongly defined band of black spots, 

 many of them like an open horseshoe, four scales apart. Below 

 dusky white with an elongate dusky streaky spot at the side at 

 every fourth or fifth ventral. 

 Recorded as from Simla. 



Coluber, Lmnnceus. 



Form rounded above. Tail one-fifth or less of total length. 

 Eye moderate with round pupil. Nasals two. One prseocular. 

 Ventrals not keeled. Anal bifid. 



C. porphyraceus. Cantor 



PsaTnmophis porphyraceus, Cantor. 



Coronella callicephahis, Gray. 



Scales smooth, without apical groove, in 19 rows. Loreal 



longer than high. One prseocular in contact with the vertical. 



Two small postoculars. 8 upper labials, the fourth and fifth 



entering the orbit. Anal bifid. Ventrals scarcely extending up 



