48. lYCODON. 351 



the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal 

 elongate, not entering the eye, forming a suture with the inter- 

 nasal ; one praeocularj two postoculars ; temporals small, 1+2 or 

 2 + 3 ; nine or ten upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the 

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

 shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 

 rows. Ventrals 167-183, not angukte laterally ; anal divided ; sub- 

 caudals 52-63 pairs. Brown above, each scale with two white dots, 

 or short longitudinal lines ; labials white ; usually a white collar ; 

 lower surfaces uniform white. 



Total length 350 milhm. ; tail 60. 



N.E. and S. India and Burma. 



a. ? (V. 180 ; C. ?). Calcutta. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 



h. S (V. 167 ; 0. 63). Anamallays. Cul. Beddome [CI. 



c. Hgr. (V 172; C. 56). Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.J. 



<i-e. $ (V. 183 ; C. ?) & hgr. India. Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



(V. 175 ; C. 52). 



f-9- <S (V. 169 ; C. 61) & hgr. India. 



(V. 180 ; C. 58). 



3. Lycodon tessellatus. 



Lycodon tessellatum, Jan, Elenco, p. 96 (186.3), and Icon. G6n. 36, 

 pi. iv. hg. 2 (1870). 



Snout moderately depressed ; eye rather small. Eostral broader 

 than deep, just visible from above : internasals much shorter than 

 the praefrontals ; frontal nearly as long as its distance from the end 

 of the snout, slightly shorter than the parietals; loreal elongate, 

 not entering the eye, forming a suture with the internasal; one 

 prae- and two postoculars; temporals small, scale-like, 2 + 3 ; nine 

 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; four lower 

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

 than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Anal divided. 

 Subcaudals in two rows. Above with three series of alternating 

 black spots ; ventrals and subcaudals brown, edged with whitish. 



Manilla, Philippines. 



4. Lycodon anamallensis. (Plate XXIV. fig. 1.) 



Lycodon anamallensis, Glinth. Rept. Brit. hid. p. 318 (1864) ; 

 'Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 293 (1890). 



Snout depressed, subspatulate in the adult; eye rather large 

 in the half-grown, rather small in the adult. Eostral much broader 

 than deep, just visible from above ; internasals much shorter than the 

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

 as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, slightly 

 shorter than the parietals ; two loreals, the anterior forming a 

 suture with the internasal ; one prseocular, in contact with the 



