352 COLIJBRID^. 



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

 upper labials, third, fourtli, 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 

 189-202, obtusely angulate laterally ; anal undivided ; subcaudals 

 64r-74 pairs. Brown above, with narrow white, black-edged cross 

 bands ; labials white, each with a brown spot ; lower parts uniform 

 white. 



Total length 510 millim. ; tail 95. 



S. India. 



a. Hgr. (V. 203 ; C. 74). Anamallavs. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Type.) 

 6. $ (V. 180; 0.64). Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



A- 



5. Lycodon aulicus. 



jRussell, Ind. Serp. ii. pis. xxxvii. & xxxix. (1801). 



Coluber aulicus, Linn. Mtts. Ad. Frid. i. p. 29, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1754), 



and S. N. i. p. 381 (1766). 

 Lycodon aulicus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. .551 ; GUnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 316 (1864), and Zool JReo. 1870, p. 75 ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 86, 



pi. iv. fig. 1 (1870) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 199 (1876) ; 



Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 383 (1884) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 



p. 294 (1890). 



capucinus, Bote, I. c. 



unicolor, Boie, I. c. 



hebe, Schleg. Pliys. Serp. ii. p. 106, pi. iv. figs. 1-6 (1837). 



aulicus, part.. Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 68 (1847) ; Dum. S/- 



Bibr. vii. p. 369 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 201 (1868). 

 Tytleria hypsirhinoides, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Snc. Mus. p. 66 



(1868). 



Snout much depressed, with swollen lips, spatulate in the adult ; 

 eye rather small. Eostral much broader than deep, just visible 

 from above ; internasals much shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal 

 once and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, usually 

 shorter than its distance from the fend of the snout, shorter than 

 the parietals ; loreal elongate, not entering the eye, extensively in 

 contact with the internasal ; one praeocular, usually in contact with 

 the frontal; two (rarely three) postoculars; temporals small, 2-|-3 

 or3-|-3; nine 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 178-224, obtusely angulate laterally ; nasal 

 divided (rarely entire) ; subcaudals 56-80 pairs. Brown above, 

 uniform or with whitish markings ; upper lip white, uniform or 

 spotted with brown ; lower parts uniform white. 



Total length 510 millim. ; tail 110. 



India and Ceylon, Himalayas, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Malaj"- 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Philippines, Celebes, Hores, Timor. 

 Introduced in the Mascarene Islands. 



