54. ZAMBNIS. 405 



Snout obtuse, curved and projecting. Eostral large, broader than 

 deep, the portion visible from above more than half its distance from 

 the frontal ; internasals as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal ante- 

 riorly much broader than the supraocular, once and a quarter to 

 once and a half as long as broad, nearly as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, or as the parietals ; loreal as long as 

 deep or longer than deep; one prseocular, in contact with the 

 frontal, usually with a small subocular below it ; two or three post- 

 oculars ; temporals 2+2 or 2 + 3; eight upper labials, fourth and 

 fifth entering the eye ; four or live lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields nearly as long as the 

 anterior, separated from each other by two or three series of scales. 

 Scales smooth, in 21 or 23 rows. Ventrals 197-225 ; anal divided ; 

 subcaudals 73-92. Yellowish or brownish olive above, with narrow 

 white, brown, and black variegated cross bands on the anterior half 

 of the body ; these bands may entirely disappear in the adult ; lower 

 parts uniform yellowish. 



Total length 1060 millim. ; tail 220. 



Madras Presidency, Northern India, Province Wellesley (Malay 

 Peninsula). 



a. Hgr. (V. 200 ; 0. ?). Vizagapatam District. Dr. P. Russell. 



6. Hgr. (V.197; C. 88). Madras. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. 



c. Yo-. (V. 209 ; 0. 92). Madras. Sir W.' Elliot [P.]. 



d. Y^. (V. 212; 0.82). Benares. Dr. Sayer [P.j. 



e. \g. (V. 225; C. 77). Gwalior. 0. Maries, Esq. [E.]. 

 f-g- c? (V. 223, 211 ; C. India. Zoological Society. 



87, ?). 

 h. Yg. (Y. 198; 0. 87). Prov. Wellesley. Dr. Cantor. 



23. Zamenis ravergieri. 



Coluber ravergieri, MSnHi: Cat. Mais. p. 69 (1832). 



maculatus {non Merr.), Dwigvisky, Nat. Hist. Russ., Amphib. 



p. 26 (1832).— resie Strauch. 

 Zamenis caudselineatus, OUnth. Cat. p. 104 (1858) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 



23, pi. iii. (1867). 

 Periops caudselineatus, Jan, in De Filippi, Viagg. Pers. p. 355 



(1865). 

 Zamenis ravergieri, Strauch, SMang. Russ. R. p. 127 (1873) ; Blanf. 



Zool. E. Pers. p. 417 (1876), and ind Yark. Miss., Rept. p. 22 



(1878). 



fedtschenkoi, Strauch, I. c. p. 135, pi. iv. 



ravergieri, var. fedtschenkoi, Boettg. Zool. Jahrb. iii. 1888, 



p. 927. 



Snout feebly projecting, obtuse. Eostral once and one third to 

 once and a half as broad as deep, the portion visible from above 

 measuring one third or one fourth its distance from the frontal ; 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than the praefrontals ; 

 frontal anteriorly considerably broader than the supraocular, once 

 and one fourth to once and a half as long as broad, as long as or a 



