10. TKOPiDoiroTVs. 253 



or short transverse bands, along each side of the back ; upper labials 

 yeUowish with black suiures ; a yellow, black-edged, oblique streak 

 from the eye to the gape ; a yeUow band across the nape, behind 

 the parietals ; all these markings becoming indistinct with age ; 

 belly white, uniform, or closely dotted with brown on the sides. 

 Total length 660 miUim. ; tail 190. 



S.W. India. 



t 



a. Yg. (V. 142 ; 0. 68). Nilgherries. Ool. Beddome [0.]. 



(Type.) 

 b,c-f. 2 (V.IU; C'.eS) Wynad. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



&yg.(V.140,141,142, 



187; 0.74,66,66,?). 

 ff-i. ? (V. 144; 0.?) & AnamaUays, 4700 feet. W. Daviaon, Esq. 



yg. (V. 143, 131 ; C. [P.]. 



76,?). 

 k. 2 (V. 143 ; 0. 74). Peermade, Travancore. H. S. Ferguson, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 ^-m. ^ (V. 160, 145 ; 0. S.India. Ool. Beddome [P.]. 



p 



', 75). 



58. Tropidonotus stolatus. 



Rmsell, Ind. 8erp. {. pi. x (1796), & pis. xv.b. & xix. (1801). 



Coluber stolatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 879 (1766) ; Daud. Sept. vii. 

 p. 161 (1803). 



Elaps bilineatus, Sehneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 299 (1801). 



Coluber bilineatus, Daud. t. c. p. 165. 



Tropidonotus stolatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 535 ; Schhg. Phys. Serp. 

 ii. p. 317 (1837) ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 90 (18i7) ; Oiinth. 

 Cat. p. 68 (1858); Peters, Mon. Berl. Jc. 1861, p. 686; Gilntli. 

 Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 266 (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 177 

 (1876) ; Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 816 (1879) ; Murray, 

 Zool. Sind, p. 379 (1884) ; Boetty. Ber. Ojffenb. Ver. Nat. 1888, 

 p. 79 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 348, fig. (1890). 



Amphiesma stolatum, Dum. 8r Bibr. vii. p. 727 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. 

 Zool. An. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 233. 



? Tropidonotus ruficeps, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 444. 



Eye moderate. Kostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals much narrowed anteriorly, as long as broad or a 

 little longer, nearly as long as the praefrontals ; frontal once and 

 two thirds to twice as long as broad, longer than its distance from 

 the end of the snout, as long as the parietak ; loreal as long as deep 

 or deeper ; one prae- and three postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1 or 1 +2 ; 

 eight upper labials normally, third, fourth, and fifth entering the 

 eye ; five or six lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, 

 strongly keeled, outer row smooth. Ventrals 120-161 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 50-89. Greenish or brownish olive, with 

 more or less distinct black spots or reticulated cross bars intersected 

 by two yellow longitudinal bands, which are best marked posteriorly ; 

 prse- and postoculars yeUowish ; lower surfaces white, usually with 

 a black spot on each side of each ventral. 



