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C. ornata, Shaw. 



C. paradisi, Boie. 

 C. Hasseltii, Bleeker. 

 Scales smooth in 17 rows, with a pair of apical grooves ; 

 broader on the back than on the sides. Colour black with bright 

 gamboge spots. Head barred with yellow. Sometimes the back 

 is tinged with red, or has a series of red rosettes down it. 

 Grows to 53 inches. (Tail 13.) 



Inhabits Bengal, Assam, the Khasi Hills, Pegu, Tenasserim, &c. 

 The principal food of this snake are the OecJcotidce. 



Family Detiop B.id^. 

 Form excessively slender. Head narrow, elongate, pointed. 

 Scales narrow, imbricate, in 15 to 17 rows. 



Tragops, Wagler. 

 Snout pointed. Pupil horizontal. Nostril in a single nasal 

 shield. Scales smooth or faintly keeled. 



T. Perroteti, D. et B. 



Leptophis Kanariensia, Jerdon. J. A. S., B., 1855, p. 530. 

 Bryiophis trofidococcyx, Giinther. 

 Rostral higher than broad, with the upper margin reverted. 

 Prsefrontals small, in contact with the first and second labials. 

 One-third the size of the postfrontals which touch the second labial. 

 Nasal narrow, pointed behind, pierced by the nostril posteriorly. 

 Loreal none. One prseocular in contact with the vertical. One 

 postocular. Scales in 15 rows, keeled in the coccygeal region. 

 8 upper labials, the fourth and fifth entering the orbit. Colour 

 uniform grass green, yellowish below. A yellow lateral streak. 

 Grows to 24 inches. (Tail 5'5.) 

 Inhabits North Kanara, the NUghiri Hills, &c. 



T. prasinus. Rein. 



Dryvnus nasutus, Bell. 

 Tragops nasutus, Wagler. 

 T. xanthozowAis, Russell. 

 Rostral flat, subcrescentic sharply ridged above. Frontals 

 longer than broad. Nasal simple, pierced by the nostril 



