220 COLUBKIDJ!. 



ventrals; these blotches ma}' be subconfluent or form two chain-like 

 series ; subcandals unspotted or with a few small scattered dots. 



Total length 700 millim. ; tail 100. 



Bengal and Assam, Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, and Southern 

 China. 



A. Above with very ill-defined dark longitudinal streaks; belly 



with a lateral series of square brown spots. Scales in 19 rows. 

 {S. cyelurus, S. bicatenatus.) 



a. S (V. 175 ; 0. 87). Toungoo. E. W. Dates, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Yg. (V. 170; 0. 37). Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Tg. (V. 156; C. 43). S. China. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



d. d (V. 166 ; C. 48). ? College of Surgeons. 



(Type of S. bicatenatus.) 



B. Above with four more or less distinct dark longitudinal streaks 



and a light vertebral line ; belly with a lateral series of square 

 brown spots. Scales in 19 rows. 



a. $ (V. 175 ; C. 40). Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



b. ? (V. 167 ; C. 44). Tenasserim. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



C. Like the preceding, but ventral spots absent or reduced to a few 



small dots. 



a-b. Hg)-. (V. 171, 173; Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [0.]. 



C. 46, 43). 



D. No longitudinal streaks, no ventral spots. Scales in 19 rows. 



a, h. S (V. 167; C. 46) Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [CI. 



&yg.(V. 150; C.49). 



E. No longitudinal streaks, no ventral spots. Scales in 21 rows. 



{S. fasciolatus, S. cochinchinensis.) 



ti, 6. cJ (V. 160; C. 42) Pachebone, Siam. JM. Mouhot [C.]. (Types 



& $ (V. 165; C. 45). oi S. fasciolatus.) 



e. Hgr. (V. 173 ; 0. 41). Siam. M. H. Newman, Esq. [P.]. 

 d. Yg. (V. 210; C. 47). Lao Mountains. M. Mouhot [C.]. (Type 



of S. cochinchinensis). 



P. Above with four dark stripes as in B, which are crossed by black 

 bars ; belly immaculate. Scales in 21 rows. 



u.. Hgr. (V. 180; C. 53). Bia-po, KarinHills. M. L. Fea [C.]. 



4. Simotes albocinctus. 



Coronella albocincta. Cantor, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 50. 

 Xenodon purpurascens, var.. Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 67 (1847) ; 



Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. JBeng. xxiii. 1854, p. 289. 

 Coronella punctulatus, Qray, Ann. ^ Mag. N. S. (2) xii. 1853 



p. 889. 

 Simotes purpurascens, vars. D and E, Oiinth. Cat. p. 26 (1858). 

 ; punctulatus, OUnth, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 217 (1864); Anders 



Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 169. 



