10. TEOPIBONOTUS. 229 



of the snout, nearly as long as the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; 

 one prse- and two or three postoculars ; temporals 2+2 or 2 + 3; 

 nine (exceptionally ten) upper lahials, fourth and fifth (or fifth and 

 sixth) entering the eye ; five lower lahials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales 

 in 17 rows, smooth or faintly keeled. Ventrals 142-154 ; anal 

 divided ; suboaudals 62-83. Brown or black above, with small 

 pale markings or dots ; two outer rows of scales, and the ventrals 

 and subcaudals yellowish with dark margins ; upper lip uniform 

 yellowish ; frequently a light, curved, longitudinal streak on each 

 side of the nape. 



Total length 600 millim. ; tail 150. 



Pegu, Burma. 



a. $ (V. 142 ; 0. 62). ? Zoological Society. (Type.) 



b-e. S (V. 144, 144 ; Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [0.1. 



0. 70, 83) & 2 (V. 



154, 154 ; 0. 78, 80). 



30. Tropidonotus modestus. (Plate XIV. fig. 3.) 



Tropidonotus modestus, Guntk. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 232 ; Anders. 

 An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 817 (1879) ; Bmdeng. Faun. Ind., 

 Bept. p. 343 (1890). 



Eye rather small. Eostral twice as broad as deep, just visible 

 from above ; internasals as long as broad, shorter than the prse- 

 frontals ; frontal once and a half to once and two thirds as long as 

 broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one (or two) prae- and 

 two or three postoculars; temporals 1 + 1 (1 + 2, or 2 + 2); nine 

 upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye ; five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, feebly keeled. 

 Ventrals 154-168; anal divided; subcaudals 96-122. Olive- 

 brown above, with small black spots, and a more or less distinct 

 series of small yellowish spots, or a yellowish stripe, along each side 

 of the back ; sutures between the labials black ; lower surfaces 

 yellowish, with a series of blackish spots on each side of the 

 ventrals, or yellowish in the middle and blackish on the sides, or 

 nearly entirely blackish. 



Total length 600 millim. ; tail 180. 



Khasi HUk and Western Yunnan. 



a-b. cJ (V. 166, 163 ; Khasi Hills. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



0. 114, ?). (Types.) 



e-d. S (V. 168 ; 0. ?) Oherra Punji, Khasi Dr. J. Anderson [P.]. 



& $ (V. 159 ; C. Hilla. 



102). 



