171. psammophis. 

 Table showins Ntjmbees op Scales and Shields. 



155 



noiostici'us 



sohokari 



puncttdattis 

 trigrammus 

 subtaniatus 

 hocagii .. ., 



sSrikms 



furcatus , . 

 lomgifrons . . 

 oondemarws 

 brevirostris 



elegans 



biseriatiis .. 



crucifer 



pulcher 



1. FsammopMs leithii. 



PaammopHs leithii, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 505, pi. xxxix. ; 

 Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Seng. 1872, p. 83 ; Murray, Zool. Sind, 

 p. 382 (1884) ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 538. 



condanarus {non Merr.), Blanf. Joum. As. Soc. Beng. xlviii. 



1879, p. 126. 



leithii, part., Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 366 (1890). 



Snout once and a half to once and two thirds as long as the eye. 

 Rostral hroader than deep, visible from above ; nostril between two 

 or three shields ; internasals about half the length of the prse- 

 f rentals ; frontal twice to twice and a half as long as broad, much 

 narrower, in the middle, than the supraocular, longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, nearly as long as the parietals ; 

 loreal about twice as long as deep ; one prseocular, in contact with 

 the frontal ; two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 ; eight upper labials, 

 third deeper than second and fourth, fourth and fifth entering the 

 eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 

 which are a little shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows, 

 Ventrals 170-185 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 92-97. TeUowish 

 above, with four longitudinal brown bands edged with black, the 

 median pair extending to the supraoculars, the outer to the end of 

 the snout, passing through the eye ; a dark streak on the vertex ^ 

 lower parts white. 



Total length 730 millim. ; tail 210. 



Sind, Cutch, Eajputana, Scindia, Baluchistan. 



a. S (V. 177; 0.97). 



b. ? (V. 170; 0.?). 



