560 



VIPEEIDjE. 



M-0. d (Sc. 17 ; V. 145 ; 0. Piinduloya, 4000 ft. E. E. Green, Esq. 



59)&yff. (Sc.l9; V.145: [P.]. 



C. 58). " 

 p-q. d (Sc. 17 ; V. 157 ; 0. ? (Types of M. olivacea.) 



68) & $ (Sc. 19 ; V. 144 ; 



C. 56). 

 r. Skull. Ceylon. Miss Layard [P.]. 



30. Lachesis macrolepis. 



Trimeresurus macrolepis, Beddome, Madras Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. 



1863; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 431 (1890); Boettg. Ber. 



Offenb. Ver. Nat. 1892, p. 93. 

 Peltopetor macrolepis, Gilnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 391, pi. xxiii. 



fig. C (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 225 (1876). 



Eostral a little broader than deep ; nasal entire or divided ; 

 upper head-scales very large, imbricate, smooth ; supraoculars very 

 large, separated anteriorly by one scale, posteriorly by three ; inter- 

 nasals in contact or separated by one scale ; two postoculars and a 

 subocular, the latter in contact with the third and fourth labials ; 

 7 or 8 upper labials, the second forming the anterior border of the 

 loreal pit. Scales very large, keeled, outer much smaller than dorsals, 

 in 13 to 15 rows. Ventrals 134-143 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 48- 

 56 pairs. Tail prehensile. Uniform bright green or olive above ; a 

 whitish line along the outer row of scales ; pale greeuish beneath. 



Total length 680 millim. ; tail 120. 



Anamallay and Pulney hills, S. India. 



o, 5, c. cJ (Sc. 13, 13; V. 134, Anamallays. Col. Beddome [0.1. 



138 ; C. 53, 56) & yg. (Sc. (Types.) 



15; V. 135; C. 52). 



d. ? (Sc. 16 ; V. 140 ; C. 48). Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



31. Lachesis puniceus. 



CopHas punicea, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 561. 



Trigonocephalus puniceus, Schleg. Phys, Serp. ii. p. 545, pi. xix. 



figs. 10 & 11 (1837), andAbbild. p. 118, pi. xxxviii. (1844). 

 Atropos acontia (non Laur.), Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 49 (1842), and 

 Cat. p. IS (1849). 



puniceus. Bum. 8^ Bibr. vii. p. 1619 (1854). 



Atropophis puniceus, Peters, Ann. Mus. Oenova, iii. 1871, p. 41. 

 bomeensis, part., F. Miill. Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, viii. 1887, 



p. 282. 

 Trimeresurus puniceus, Boettg. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 1892, p. 136. 



Snout short, obliquely truncate, with sharp raised angle all 

 round; eye rather small. Eostral as broad as deep or a little 

 deeper than broad ; upper head-scales small, juxtaposed or sub- 

 imbricate, smooth on the snout and vertex ; 12 to 14 scales in a 

 transverse series between the supraoculars, which are narrow or 

 broken up into pointed, erect scales ; two pairs of internasals ; two 

 to four postoculars and one or two suboculars, separated from the 

 labials by two or three series of scales ; temporal scales smooth or 



