175. BET0PHI8. 179 



. $ (V. 144; 0.70). Madras Presidency. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



i-f. 6 (V. 142, 138, India. Sir J. MacGregor 



142, 140, 141 ; C. 79, [P.]. 



82, 80, 76, 80). 

 ^-i. (J (V. 141, 135; India. Zool. Society. 



C. 80, 70) & ? (V. 



147 ; 0. 69). (Types of D. tr(^idococcyx.) 



k-l. S (V. 140, 135 ; India. 



0. 77, 76). 



2. DryopMs dispar. 



Tragops dispar, Gunth. Rept. Brit. Incl. p. 303, pi. xxiii. fig. A 



(1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 192 (1876). 

 Dryophis dispar, Boulemg. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 368 (1890). 



Snout pointed and projecting, without dermal appendage, not 

 quite twice as long as the eye. Intemasals or internasals and 

 praefrontals usually in contact with the lahials ; one or two small 

 loreals ; frontal as long as or longer than its distance from the end 

 of the snout, as long as the parietals ; one praeocular, in contact 

 with the frontal, with one or two suhoculars below it ; two post- 

 oculars ; temporals 2+2 or 2+3 ; eight upper labials, fifth entering 

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

 which are as long as or a little shorter than the posterior. Scales 

 in 15 rows, those on sacral region more or less distinctly keeled. 

 Ventrals 142-156 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 82-106. Bright 

 green or bronzy olive above, the skin between the scales black ; 

 pale green or pale olive beneath, with a yellow line on each side. 



Total length 650 millim. ; tail 200. 



HUls of Southern India. 



■«-/■ 2 (V. 151, 149, 161, Anamallays. Ool. Beddome [C.]. 



145, 156; C. 97, 100, (Types.) 



97, 97, 105) & hgr. 



(V. 163; 0.106). 



</-i. 2 (V. 142, 150, 147 ; Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



0. 90, 82, 95). 



k. (J (V. 157 ;0. 92). Madras Presidency. Ool. Beddome [OJ. 



1. (J (V. 153 ; 0. ?). High Range, Travan- H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 

 core. [P.]. 



3. Dryophis fronticinctus. 



Dryiophis fronticinctus, Gunth. Cat. p. 158 (1858) ; Bouleng. Faun. 



Ind., Bept. p. 368 (1890) ; W. Sclater, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ix. 



1891, p. 244. 

 Tragops fronticinctus, OUnth. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 304, pi. xxiii. fig. E 



(1864) ; Theob. Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 1868, p. 52 ; Stolicuka, Journ. 



As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, p. 197 ; Theob. Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 192 (1876). 

 javanicus {non Steind.), GUnth. Ann. Sf Mag. N. S. (4) i. 



1868, p. 424 ; Theob. I. c p. 193. 



Snout pointed and projecting, without dermal appendage, mea- 



n2 



