80 C0riJBEIDJ5. 



C. Pawn-colour, without spots or markings, or with traces of 

 darker cross-bands. 



a. ? (V. 268; C.132). Mindanao. A. Everett, Esq. [O.]. 



b. Hgr. 3 (V. 261 ; 0. Eejang R., Sarawak. Brooke Low, Esq. [P.].. 

 143). 



22. Dipsadomorphus forstenl. 



Triglypbodon forateni. Bum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 1077 (1854). 



tessellatum, Dum. 8f £ibr. t. c. p. 1082. 



Dipsas forateni, Jan, Elenco, p. 104 (1868) ; GuntJi. JRept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 309 (1864); Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 187; iStoliczka,. 



Journ. As. Soe. Beng. xl. 1871, p. 439 ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. 



Ind. p. 198 (1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 362 (1890). 



tessellata, Jan, I. c. 



cynodon, var., F. Mull. VerJi. Nat. Ges. Basel, vi. 1878, 



p. 689. 



Anterior palatine and mandibular teeth strongly enlarged. 

 Eostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 broader than long, much shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal as 

 long as broad, or a little longer than broad, as long as or a little 

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

 the parietals ; loreal square, or deeper than long ; one prieocular, 

 extending to the upper surface of the head but not reaching the 

 frontal; two or three postoculars; temporals very small and 

 numerous, scale-like ; eight to eleven upper labials, third, fourth, 

 and fifth, or fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye ; three or four 

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

 large as or a little larger than the posterior ; latter separated from 

 each other by scales. Scales in 25 to 31 rows, vertebral row feebly 

 enlarged. Ventrals 254-270 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 103-131. 

 Brown above, uniform or with more or less regular, angular, black 

 cross-bars, with or without white spots between them ; usually a 

 black band from the frontal shield to the nape, and another on each 

 side behind the eye ; lower parts white, uniform or spotted with, 

 brown. 



Total length 1720 millim. ; tail 330. 



India and Ceylon. 



a-l. Yg., dry. Matheran, Bombay. Dr. Leith [P.], 



c. d, e. $ (So. 29 ; V. Anamallays. Col. Beddome rC.l. 

 264; C. Ill), hgr. (Sc. 



27 ; V. 259 ; 0. 103), 



&yg. (Sc.29; V.268; 



C. 119). 

 f-9- c? $ , imperfect. Anamallays. Col. Beddome fCl. 



h. d" (Sc. 29 ; V. 263 ; C. Madras Pres. Sir W. Elliot VP T 



112). ^ 



i, h. tJ (Sc. 27 ; V. 262 ; India. 



C. 111)& ? (Sc. 27; 



Y. 265; C. 103). 

 I. S (Sc. 27 ; V. 257 ; C. ? Zoological Society. 



