232 



COLTJBKTDjE. 



B. Above with black spots arranged quincuncially ; ventral shields 



edged with black. 



C. Above with black stripes, four on the nape, five on the body ; 

 ventral shields edged with black. (T. melanozostus, Boie.) 



z. ? (V. 145; C.P). Borneo. 



a. Yg. (V. 141 ; C. 70). Java. 



33. Tropidonotus asperrimus. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) 



Tropidonotus quincunciatus, var., Qunih. Cat. p. 66 (1858), and Rept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 261 (1864) ; F. Mull. Verh. not. Ges. Basel, viii. 1887, 



p. 264. 



piacator, part., Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Mept. p. 349 (1890). 



asperrimus, Bouleng. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (6) vii. 1891, p. 281 ; 



F. Mm. Festsch: nat. Ges. Basel, 1892, p. 204. 



Very closely allied to T. piscator, but scales very strongly keeled, 

 the keels forming sharp, strongly raised, continuous lines along the 

 hinder part of the body 9,nd on the tail ; only the outer row of scales 

 smooth, Ventrals 130-146 ; subcaudals 64-95. Anterior half of 

 body pale olive or reddish, with two series of more or less distinct 

 alternating large roundish or rhomboidal, dark olive or brown, 

 black-edged spots, which are partly confluent on the vertebral line 

 and sometimes form a sinuous band ; posterior part of body uniform 

 dark olive, or olive with blackish spots arranged quincuncially ; two 

 oblique black lines, one below, the other behind the eye ; lower 

 parts uniform yellowish. 



Total length 820 miUim. ; tail 210. 



Ceylon. 



a-b,c-d. 5 (V.131; C.64) 

 &yg. (V. 138, 137, 142; 

 C. 90, 90, 80). 



e. 9 (V. 141 ; C. 81). 



/. Hgr. (V. 148 ; C. 83). 



g. Yg. (V. 137 ; 0, ?). 



h. Yg. (V. 131 ; 0. 85). 



i.S (V:i88; C. 85). 



k-l, m-n. 9 (V. 187, 146 

 Cf, 83), hgr. (V. 138 

 O.F), & yg. (V. 137 

 0.7]). 



Ceylon. 



Near Candy. 



Pu^duloya, 4000 ft. 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



Dr. Kelaart. 



Capt. Gascoigne [P.].' 

 E.E.Green, Esq. [P.I. 

 Sir A. Smith [P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C,]. 

 Zoological Society. 



