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olive. Skin and margin of some scales, black. Lower parts 

 yellowish. Some of the ventrals blackish near their base and 

 ends. 



Grows to 63i inches. (Tail 13-5.) 



Inhabits the Western Himalayas and Nipal. 



Ctnophis, Qray. 



Form somewhat slender and compressed. Eye moderate. 

 Pupil round. Nasals two. One prseocular. Scales slightly 

 keeled or with a pair of apical grooves in 25 to 27 rows. Anal 

 entire. 



C. Malabaricus, Jerdon. J. A. S., B., 1854, p. 530. 



Rostral as high as broad. Prsefrontals broader than long, one- 

 third the size of the postfrontals. Loreal longer than high, irre- 

 gularly quadrangular. One prajocular sometimes touching the 

 vertical. Two postoculars. 9 upper labials, the fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth entering the orbit. Scales smooth in 25 rows, with a pair 

 of apical grooves. Colour light brownish olive with some 22 

 black cross bands, less than one-half as broad as the .interspaces 

 and disappearing posteriorly, each band enclosing six white 

 ocelli. Each band terminates in two black lines on each side 

 which come down to the ventrals to meet the similar lines of 

 each adjoining band on either side. The first band forms a white 

 black edged collar. A broad brown band runs along the hinder 

 part of the trunk and the tail. A short black vertical streak 

 below the eye, and another behind the eye along the suture of 

 the seventh and eighth labials. 



Grows to 15 inches. (Tail 3.) 



Inhabits Malabar (Jerdon), Anamallay hills (Beddome), the 

 Nilghiri hills, &c. 



C. Helena, Daud. 



Head narrow. Snout long obtusely rounded. Rostral broader 



than high. Prsefrontals small, a third or fourth of the size of 



the postfrontals. Loreal longer than high. One praeociilar, 



generally touching the vertical. Two postoculars. 9 upper labials, 



