15. Simotes chinensis. (Plate IX. fig. 1.) 

 Simotes chinensis, Giinth. Ann. §• Mag. N. S. (6) i. 1888, p. 16. 



Nasal divided ; portion of rostral seen from above one half to 

 three- fifths as long as its distance from the frontal ; suture between 

 the internasals as long as or longer than that between the prae- 

 frontals ; frontal longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 

 as long as the parietals ; loreal a little longer than deep ; one prse- 

 and tvro postoculars ; a subocular may be present below the prae- 

 ocular ; temporals 1+2 or 2 + 2; eight upper labials, fourth and 

 fifth, or fifth, entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields, which are about once and a half the 

 length of the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals angulate 

 laterally, 170-191; anal entire; snbcaudals 55-60. Pale grey- 

 brown above, with narrow blackish-brown transverse bands, 15 to 

 17 in number; a dark brown arrow-headed marking on the occiput 

 and nape, with the apex on the frontal shield ; a crescentic dark 

 brown band anteriorly, passing through the eyes ; yellowish 

 inferiorl)', with quadrangular black spots. 



Total length 600 millim. ; tail 120. 



China. 



a. Yg. (V. 191 ; 0. 65). Mountains north of A. E. Pratt, Esq. 



Kiu Kiang. [C.]. (Type.) 



b-d. cJ (V. 176; 0. 59) Hoi-How, Hainan. J. Neumann, Esq. 



&yg. (V. 172,170;C. [P.]. 



60, 58). 



16. Simotes vaillanti. 



Simotes vaillanti, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. 1877, p. 107. 



Nasal divided ; one prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2; 

 eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye. Scales in 19 

 rows. Anal divided. Olive-brown above, with or without two 

 dorsal black lines commencing from the eyes, and with black trans- 

 verse spots ; belly yellowish. 



China. 



