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L. jara, Shaw. 



Leptorhytaon Java. (Gth. gen.). 

 Lycophidmrn bipuTwtatum, Peters. 

 Scales smooth, with a minute sub-apical dot in 17 rows. 

 Nostril either in a single shield, which may be simple, divided 

 above and grooved below, or between two shields. Prsefrontals 

 small. One prseocular. Colour brown, each scale with two 

 yellow dots (white in spirits), with or without a yellow collar. 

 Grows to 16'5 inches. (Tail 2-5.) 



Inhabits Southern India, Ganjam, Bengal, Sykkim and Garo 

 Hills, Pegu, &c. (where it is certainly rare), but recorded by 

 Stoliczka. 



L. Anamallensis, Giinther. 



Scales in 17 rows, a minute apical groove on some of them. 

 Anal entire. Prsefrontals square, half the size of postfrontals, 

 which are rather longer than broad. Two loreals. One prse- 

 ocular, scarcely touching the vertical. Two postoculars. Colour 

 greyish brown, with 25 small white (yellow ?) brown-edged 

 cross-bars on the back side, indistinctly reticulated with whitish. 

 Each labial with a brown, spot. Belly uniform white. 



Grows to 20 inches. (Tail 3-5.) 



Inhabits the Anamallay Hills. 



Tetragonosoma, Ounther. 



Body slender or moderate. Head depressed, distinct from 

 neck. Nostril between two shields. Loreal none. 



J. atropurpureum. Cantor. 



Colour deep purple, marbled with white and black, beneath 

 pearl coloured. 



Inhabits Mergui. 



Cantor's specimen is lost, and the species has not been re-dis- 

 covered. The only other species (effrene, Cantor) from Pinang 

 and Banka has not hitherto been recorded within Indian limits. 

 (See Stoliczka, J. A, S., 1870, p. 203.) 



