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D. Barnesii, Gunther. P. Z. S., 1869, p. 506, pi. 40, f. 2. 

 Scales in 19 rows. Loreal as high as long. Prseoculars three, 

 he upper not reaching the vertical. Postoculars two. Upper 

 abials eight, the third and fourth entering the orbit. Temporals 

 lumerous, scale-like. Anal entire. Colour dark grey, finely 

 )Owdered with brown. Irregular brown band-like markings on 

 he back, and irregular black spots along the lower part of the 

 ide. BeUy finely mottled with brown. Head dark brown, with 

 , dark streak from eye to gape. 



Length 23 inches. 

 Inhabits Ceylon. 



D. hexagonota, Blyth (Stol. J. A. S., 1870, p. 198, pi. XI, 

 f. 4, and 1871, p. 421. 



Body compressed. Scales in 17 to 21 rows, according to 

 ige, with an apical groove. Anal bifid. Head very large, 

 joreal squarish, narrow above and higher than long. One large 

 jrseocular, not touching the vertical. Two postoculars, the lower 

 I, little smaller than the other. 8 upper labials, third, fourth 

 md fifth entering the orbit. Eye very large and prominent. 

 Colour coral red on back and sides. Head with a greenish 

 imaragdine tinge. A black dot on the occipitals, and sometimes 

 .he vertical or a median streak on its anterior portion. Some- 

 imes a short lateral streak on each occipital. Upper labials and 

 jelow white. Body above marked by very numerous transverse 

 ilightly undulating blackish bands as broad as their interspaces 

 md reaching to the ventrals. These bands disappear with age 

 md the colour tones down to a reddish brown with a pinkish, 

 (Tellowish or blackish interstitial skin. 



Grows to 45 inches. (Tail 9'3.) 



Inhabits Dorjiling Hills to 4,000, and the Andaman Islands, 

 Bengal, &c. 



Anderson (Proc. Zoo. Soc. for Feb. 1871) is inclined to refer 

 this species multifasciata, Blyth, but Stoliczka (J. A. S., 1871, 

 ). 440) points out that the eye of multifasciata is much smaller 

 md that it ranges rather with D. Forsterd of the Indian Fauna 



