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33. Coluter prasiims. 



Coluber prasimis, Blyth, Journ. As. Son. Beng. xxiii. 18o4, p. 291 ; 



Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 334 (1890) ; W. Sclater, Journ. 



As. Soc. Beng. k. 1891, p. 239. 

 Gonyosoma gramineum, G'dnth. Rept Brit. Ind. p. 294, pi. xxiii. 



fig-. D (1864) ; Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 190 (1876) ; Anders. 



An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 824 (1879). 



Eostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals a little broader than long, shorter than the prsefrontals ; 

 frontal once and one fourth to once and one third as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal square or longer than deep ; one praeocular (some- 

 times divided), usually in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals l-)-2 or 2-t-2 ; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 19 rows ; dorsals feebly keeled in the adult, smooth in the 

 young. Ventrals with a lateral keel, 198-206; anal divided 

 (rarely entire) ; subcaudals 91-107. Uniform bright green above; 

 upper lip and lower surfaces yellowish or greenish white. 



Total length 900 millim. ; tail 230. 



Eastern Himalayas, Khasi HiUs, Assam, Burma. 



a. Yg. (V. 203 ; 0. 100). Khasi Hills (?). Dr. Griffith. 



(Type of G. gramineum.) 

 b.c. d (V. 198; C. 107) Khasi Hills. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



& hgr. (V. 200 I C. ?). [P.]. 



d. 9 (V. 198 : ' 0. 91 ). Toungyi, Shan States, Lieut. Blakeway [0.]. 



6000 ft. 



34. Coluber qaadrivirgatus. 



Coluber quadrivirgatus, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 209 ; Schleg. FTiys. Serp, 



ii. p. 147, pi. V. figs. 15 & 16 (1837), and Faun. Japan, p. 84, pi. i. 



(1838). 



vulneratus, Boie, I. c. p. 212. 



Compsosoma quadrivirgatum, Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 301 (1854). 

 Elapnis quadrivirgatus, GiXnth. Cat. p. 94 (1858) ; Jan, Icon. Gin. 



24, pi. i. figs. 1-3 (1867) ; Hilgendorf, Sitz. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 



1880, p. 114, 

 bilineatus, Sallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 497. 



Eye rather large ; rostral broader than deep, just .visible from 

 above ; internasals broader than long, shorter than the praefrontals ; 

 frontal once and three fifths to twice as long as broad, longer than 

 its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal usually as long as deep, or a little deeper ; 

 one praeocular, usually with a subocular below it; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2-|-2 or 2 + 3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or longer than the 

 posterior. Scales in 19 rows, feebly but distinctly keeled (some- 



