92. SIM0IE8. 231 



transverse blackish bars ; head with well-marked dark markings, 

 viz. a creseentic band anteriorly, passing through the eyes, and a 

 chevrOT-shaped band behind, the apex on the frontal; a large 

 blackish nuchal spot, partly divided by the light vertebral line ; 

 lower surfaces yellowish, with or without square black spots ; tail 

 immaculate. 



Total length 380 millim. ; tail 30. 



Burma. 



A. Belly with square black spots. t 



a. 2 (V. 180 1 0. 85). Pegu. • W. Theobald, Esq. 



[C.]. (Type.) 



B. Belly unspotted. 



a. 2 (V. 174 ; 85). Minhla. M. L. Fea [C.]. 



6. 2 (V. 174; 0.34). NearToungoo. E. W. Gates, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 c. (J (V. 171 ; C. 42). Thayetmyo. E. Y. Watson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



20. Simotes cruentatus. (Plate X. fig. 1.) 



Simotes cruentatus, Oiintk. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (4) i. 1868, p. 417 ; 

 Theob. Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 1868, p. 41 ; Stoliczka, Proc, As. Sob. 

 Beng. 1872, p. 145 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Kept. p. 315 (1890). 



Nasal divided ; portion of rostral seen from above shorter than 

 its distance from the frontal ; suture between the internasals much 

 shorter than that between the prsefrontals ; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the end of the snout, slightly shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal longer than deep, but usually shorter than in the 

 preceding species ; prseooular single ; two postoculars ; temporals 

 1+2; eight (rarely seven) upper labials, fourth and fifth (or third 

 and fourth) entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields about two 

 thirds the length of the anterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 

 148-173; anal divided; subcaudals 27-37. Brown above, with 

 four more or less distinct darker longitudinal lines ; symmetrical 

 dark markings on head broken, up, rather indistinct in the adult, an 

 oblique spot below the eye and a large patch on the occiput being 

 distinguishable ; lower surfaces yellowish (coral-red in life) with 

 square black spots, at least on the posterior third of the belly ; a 

 large black spot at the base of the tail, and sometimes a second near 

 the tip. 



Total length 350 miUim. ; tail 45. 



Pegu. 



a-d. S (V. 164, 165, 163, Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. 



164; C. 33, 37, 37,36) [0.]. (Types.) 



& P (T. 167; 0.30). 

 e. Yg. (V. 148; 0.36). Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. 



[0.1. 



