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white dotted at the ends. Iris brown, pupU black, narrowly 

 edged with gold. 



Another specimen was uniform ochraceous, with a few indis- 

 tinct blackish marks along the back. Below bright yellow, with 

 two filiform dotted streaks of deep reddish brown along the 

 sides. Anderson says the former dark colouration is that of 

 females, and the light peculiar to males. 



Grows to 21 inches. (Tail 4'5.) 



Inhabits the Khasi and Jyntea hills, Sykkim, Assam, Pegu, 

 Tenasserim (Java, Sumatra, and the Philippines). 



Family Dendeophid^. 



Form compressed, slender, elongate. Head narrow, depressed, 

 distinct from the slender neck. Snout obtuse. Eye moderate 

 or large with round pupil. Scales narrow, imbricate. Ventrals 

 keeled. 



GoNTOSOMA, Wagler. 



One prseocular. Two postoculars. Loreal sometitoes absent, 

 otherwise head shields regular. Scales smooth or very faintly 

 keeled. Anal bifid. Teeth sub-equal, none grooved. 



G. oxycephalum, Boie. 



Alopecophis chalybceus, Gray. 



Coluber prasinus, Blyth. J. A. S., B., XXIII, p. 291. 

 Prsefrontals as broad as long, one-third the size of the post- 

 frontals. Loreal very elongate. One large prseocular in contact 

 with the vertical. Two postoculars, the lower smallest. Scales 

 in 25 , rows, smooth with a pair of apical grooves. 11 upper 

 labials, the fifth and sixth, or sixth and seventh entering the 

 orbit. Colour uniform grass green, pale below. A dark loreal 

 streak. 



Grows to 90 inches. (Tail 24.) 



Inhabits Assam, Tenasserim, the Andamans, the Malayan 

 Archipelago, &c. 



