166 COLFBEID^. 



as long as broad, nearly as broad, in the middle, as the supraocular, 

 as long as or longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as 

 long as the parietals ; loreal about twice as long as deep ; one 

 praeocular, not extending to the frontal ; two postooulars ; temporals 

 1 "1-2 or 1+3, rarely 2+3 ; eight upper labials, third longer than 

 second and fourth, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; four lower 

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

 as the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 156-182 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 75-90. Pale olive above, with two pairs of 

 more or less distinct dark bands each two scales wide ; these bands, 

 the lower of which passes through the eye, often black-edged ; upper 

 lip and lower parts uniform yellowish, with a dark line along each 

 side of the ventrals and subcaudals. 



Total length 920 miUim. ; tail 220. 



Northern India and Burma. 



a. Hgr. (V. 165 ; 0. 78). Kotree, Sind. Dr. Leith [P.]. 



b. Hgr. (V. 176; 0.88). Ohmianwallah. Dr. Cantor. 



c. 2 (V. 182; 0.?). Bengal. 



d-ff. d (V. 156, 164; Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [0.1 



0. 76, ?), $ (V. 168; 



0. ?), & hgr. (V. 166 ; 



0. 87). 

 h. Hgr. (V. 166 ; 0. ?). Toungyi, S. Shan E. W. Gates, Esq. [P.]. 



States. 



12. Psammpphis brevirostris. 



Psammophis brevirostris, Peters, Sitzb. Oes. Naturf. Fr. 1881, p. 89; 



Matschie, Zool. Jahrb. v. 1890, p. 609: Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soe. 



1895, p. 539, _ 

 ? Psammophis sibilans, var. tettensis, Peters, Seise n. Mossamh. iii, 



p. 122 (1882) ; Matschie, I. c. 

 Psammophis sibilans, var. brevirostris, Bocage, Eerp. Angola, p. 118 



(1896). 



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

 Rostral as deep as broad, visible from above ; nostril between two 

 or three shields ; internasals half as long as the prsefrontals ; 

 frontal twice as long as broad, as broad as or a little narrower, in 

 the middle, than the supraocular, as long as its distance from the 

 end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; loreal once and a half to 

 twice as long as deep; one praeocular, not reaching the frontal; 

 two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 or 3 ; eight (rarely seven) upper 

 labials, third deeper than second or fourth (or second deeper than 

 first and third), fourth and fifth (or third and fourth) entering the 

 eye ; three or four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

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

 Ventrals 153-168; anal divided; subcaudals 64-95. Brown or 

 dark olive on the back (7 rows of scales), pale olive on the sides- 

 down to the ventrals, the two shades separated by a more or less 

 distinct lighter streak ; a yellowish black-edged spot usually 

 present on each vertebral scale ; head uniform olive- brown in the 



