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No. 8. P. nardoa Cilbertii (Gilbert’s Rock Snake). These are 
varieties found in Australia. 
9. P. lazuli (nobis), called Pedda Poda. 
Abdominal scuta 252, subcaudal squame 62314. Length 2/7 9”, 
diameter 13/7. Tail round, tapers regularly, ending in a sharp point, 
length a little more than four inches. Head long, broader than the 
neck, hustate, obtuse, depressed, covered with twelve principal lamina, 
besides several smaller, disposed in a star shape sround the posterior 
ones. The ventral lamina between the eyes is divided throughout the 
middle,—a very unusual occurrence. Occiput is covered with very small 
smooth orbicular scales. Mouth wide, periphery rather thick, and cov- 
ered with oblong transverse scales; three rows of tecth in upper jaw. 
Eyes lateral, small. Trunk round, closely set. with minute, smooth, 
round imbricate scales. Three rows of scales next to the scuta larger 
than the others, oval, acuminate. Color: upper part of the head flesh 
color; rostrum ashes color; a little strenk of flesh color runs obliquely 
along oneach side of the neck, and a short, narrow, wedge-shaped stripe, 
of the same color, divides a large brown mark on the occiput. Trunk 
and tail ashes color, variegated with about thirty large, broad brown 
muacule, edged with black, of different forms and size. Sides spotted 
with similar smaller macule, most of which are whitish in the middle. , 
Scuta remarkably small and narrow, whitish, with reddish margin 
around posterior edge of anus. Squamze small. Upper part of tail sin- 
gularly variegated in white and black, the Jatter color in long broadish 
streaks. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Experiments made on fowls did not result fatally in any 
cease, although this variety has a very formidable look. 
No. 10. P. bimaculata (nobis), called likewise Pedda 
Poda. 
Abdominal scuta 252, subeaudal squame 64== 316. Length 7’ 23’’, 
diameter 23/7, Tail short, round, tapers to a sharp point. Head slightly 
broader than neck ; oblong rostrum; rounded, depressed above, sub-com- 
pressed toward the rostrum; eleven principal laminae are contiguous, 
but these are surrounded with numerous small ones; occiput covered 
with smooth ovate scales. Mouth large; three rows of teeth in upper 
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