824 REPTILIA. 



DENDROPHID^. 



Genus Gontosoma, Wagler. 



GONYOSOMA GRAMINEUM, Gthr. 



Gonyosoma gramineum, Giinther, Kept. B. Ind., 1864, p. 294, pi. 293, fig. D ; Theobald, Descr. 

 Cat. Rept, Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 191. 



Upper surface grass-green, a yellow line along tlie keel of the ventrals and 

 sub-caudals ; beneath, pale yellow-green. Upper labial shields and those of the 

 lower jaw, pale yeUowish-green. 



Length 37 inches ; head 0-80 ; tail 9-25. 



Ventrals (keeled) 193. Sub-caudals 99. Anal bifid. Nineteen rows of fully 

 keeled scales. Head flat, moderately large with an obtiisely rounded snout. Rostral 

 nearly twice as high as broad. Prefrontals sub-triangular, rounded in front, nearly 

 half as large as the postfrontals. Postfrontals much broader than long, bent 

 down on the side of the head to the low loreal. Vertical moderately sized. Lateral 

 margins equal, the anterior margins are strongly convergent and slightly con- 

 cave; hinder margins meet at a right angle. Occij)itals rounded behind, their 

 suture equals the length of the vertical. Nostril rather prominent, between two 

 almost united nasals. Loreal rather low, oblong. One preocular reaching to the 

 upper surface of the head. Temporals 24-2 in contact with postoculars. Nine 

 upper labials, fourth, fifth and sixth orbital. Seventeen rows of maxillary teeth of 

 nearly equal size. 



One specimen which has been compared with the type was found at Bham6. 



Genus Dendeophis, Boie. 

 Dendhophis picta, GmeKn, 



Ma, Thes., 1734, vol. i, pi. xcix, No. 3. 



Cohtber fiUformis, Linn., Mus. Adolph. Frid., 1754, pi. xvli, fig. 2, juv. ; Russ., Ind. Serp., vol. ii, 



1801, pis. xsv & xxvi. 

 Coluber carulens, Bonnat., Ophiol. Encycl. Method., 1784, p. 30. 

 Coluber pictus, Gmel., Syst. Nat., 1788, p. 1116. 



Coluber decorus, Shaw., Gen. Zool., 1802, vol. iii, p. 538 ; Merr. Tent., 1820, p. 128. 

 Leptophis maniar, Bell, Zool. Joum., vol. ii, 1825, p. 329. 

 Ahatulla decora, Gray, Ann. Phil., 1825, p. 16. 

 Dipsas scliohan, Kuhl, Beitrage, 1826, p. 80. 

 BendropMs pictits, Boie, Isis., 1827, p. 530; Jan & Sord., Icon. Ophid., No. xxxii, 1869, pi. i ; 



Theob., Joum. Linn. Soc, vol. xi, 1868, p. 53; id., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 



ex. No., 1868, p. 59; Stol., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlii, 1873, p. 162. 

 BendropMs picta, Wagler, Syst. Rept., 1830, p. 183; Schleg., Phys. Serp., 1837, vol. i, p. 157, and 



vol. ii, p. 228, pi. ix, figs. 5-7 ; Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. Gdn., vol. vii, 1854, p. 197 ; Gunth., Cat. 



Col. Sn., 1858, p. 148; Rept., B. Ind., 1864, p. 297; Stol., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. 



xxxix, 1870, pp. 137, 138, 141 ; id., op. cit., vol. xlii, 1873, p. 114; Anders., Journ. As. Soc, 



Bengal, vol. xl, 1871, 35; \&x. andamanemis ; id., Proc Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 184 ; Theobald, 



