60. COLTJBEE. 



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body and on the tail. Ventrals 220-265 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 

 /5-94. Young pale brown above, with black cross bands, each 

 enclosing four to six white ocelli ; adult darker brown, with trans- 

 verse series of black squarish spots, or with, more or less distinct 

 traces of the livery ot the young ; a vertical black streak below the 

 eye and an oblique one behind the eye ; some specimens have a 

 white black-edged collar, others two black longitudinal streaks on 

 the head. Lower parts yellowish, with or without a few small 

 black spots ; sometimes with a more or less distinct festooned 

 marking on each side. 



Total length 1260 millim. ; tail 250. 



India and Ceylon. 



Madras. 

 Matheran. 



Malabar. 



Anamallays. 



Sir W. Elliot [P.], 

 Dr. Leith [P.]. 



Col. Beddome [C.]. 



Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 (Types of C. malabaricus.) 

 Ool. Beddome [0.]. 



Peermad, Travan- 



core. 

 Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 R. Templeton, Esq. 



[P.]._ (Type of C. 



bistrigatus.) 



a. S (So. 27 ; V. 228 



C. 94). 

 h-d. $ (Sc. 25; V. 242 



C. 85) & yg. (Sc. 25 



25; V. 232, 228; U, 



90, 78). 

 e-f. 2 (So. 25, 25; V, 



245, 265 ; C. 85, ?). 

 g-h. Yg. (Sc. 25, 25 ; Y 



236, 247 ; C. 94, 75). 

 i. Yg. (Sc. 27; V. 226 



0. 80). 

 h. $ (Sc. 25; V. 261 



C. 80). 

 I. Hgr. (Sc. 27 ; V. 231 



C. 81). 



m-r. S (Sc. 27 ; V. 235 

 0. 88) & yg. (Sc. 27, 

 27, 27, 27, 27 ; V. 224! 

 225, 2:n, 233, 220 ; C! 

 84, 94, 80, 82, P). 



9. Coluber triaspis. 



Coluber triaspis. Cope, Pruc. Ao. Philad. 1866, p. 128, and Proc. Am. 



Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 175 ; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., P£pt. p. 115 



(1894). 

 Pityophis intermedins, Boettg. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 23-24, p. 148 



(1883). 

 Coluber mutabilis, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 175. 

 Natrix mutabilia, Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mm. no. 32, 1887, p. 71. 



triaspis. Cope, I. c. 



Scotophis mutabilis, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Bept. p. 680, pi. xlvi. 



fig. 2 (1888). 



Eostral nearly as deep as broad, visible from above ; internasals 

 broader than long, much shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal once 

 and a balf as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of 

 the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one 

 praeocular, sometimes in contact with the frontal ; two postoeulars ; 

 temporals 2 or 3 + 3 or 4 ; eight (rarely nine) upper labials, fourth 



