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on the sides. Colour brownish olive, with 22 very broad dark, 

 black edged cross bands. A narrow black streak commences, 

 behind the middle of the trunk and runs along each side of the 

 back to the tip of the tail. A median black streak on the crown 

 A black streak from the orbit to the first cross band. Belly 

 whitish. In the young the cross bands are black, white edged, 

 and reach to the belly. 



Grows to 29 inches. (Tail 5-.5.) 



Inhabits Assam, Dorjiling, the Khasi hiUs, Yunan. 



C. NuthalH, Theob. J. A. S., B., 1868, Extra No., p. 51. 



Scales smooth in 23 rows. Nostril smaU, between two large 

 nasals. Prseocular one, very large, touching the vertical. Post- 

 oculars two, small. Loreal small longer than broad. 9 upper 

 labials, the fifth and sixth entering the orbit. On one side a 

 small piece of the fourth is detached and enters the orbit. 

 Superciliaries very large, almost equalling the vertical. Colour 

 reddish grey with four rows of elongate rhomboidal intensely 

 black spots, each enclosing a pale ocellus. These spots disappear 

 posteriorly and on the tail are replaced by four deep brown 

 bands, two broad upper ones and two narrow lower ones, separ- 

 ated by narrow white bands. An oval black spot from the eye 

 to the gape. 



Inhabits Pegu. 



CoMPSOSOMA, Bumeril et BiWon. 



Form elongate, compressed. Eye moderate with round pqpil. 

 Scales keeled, with apical grooves. Prseocular usually one. Anal 

 usually entire. 



C. semifasciatum, Blyth. J. A. S., B., 1861, p. 114. 

 Scales smooth in 19 rows, each with two minute apical 

 grooves. Hea^ distinct from neck, large and remarkably 

 depressed. Rostral broad below, deeply indented. Prsefrontals 

 two-thirds the size of the postfrontals. Nostril between two 

 rather large nasals. Loreal with the lower hind angle pointed. 

 Two prseoculars, the upper touching the vertical, the lower 



