940 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the [Sept. 



gated rhomboidal scales with rounded, slightly notched points, . keeled 

 except the two lowest series on each side, which are larger than the 

 rest, rhombic, smooth. The abdomen is broad, arched ; the tail robust 

 at the root, cylindrical, tapering to a sharp point. A solitary indivi- 

 dual from Province Wellesley was of the following dimensions : 



Length of the head, ft. 0-g- inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, ] 51 



Ditto ditto tail, 6| 



2 ft. 0| inch. 



Circumference of the neck, -J-, of the trunk, If, of the root of the 

 tail, I inch. 



In Bengal this species is not numerous. It is very fierce, attacks in 

 a vertical attitude, but without expanding the anterior part of the body. 

 Its food is that of the preceding. The elongated angular head makes 

 this species resemble a Psammophis. 



Tropidonotus junceus, N. S. 



Head above shining light brown, lips and throat gamboge ; from the 

 angle of the mouth an oblique gamboge band, both joining under a 

 sharp angle on the neck ; trunk and tail dull greyish olive, with a 

 series of distant rounded whitish spots on each side ; each scutum and 

 scutellum with a small black spot on the sides, which as well as their 

 anterior margins are minutely dotted with brown. Iris black with a 

 golden ring ; tongue small, greyish. 



Scuta 157, Scutella 88. 



Habit. — Pinang. 



The head is elongated ovate, with the sides angular, compressed ; 

 the muzzle truncated; the rostral shield moderate, square, deeply 

 arched beneath, vertically fixed ; the anterior frontals small, tetrago- 

 nal ; the frontals larger, angularly bent over the side, where they border 

 the small square frenal ; the other crown shields are rather small, the 

 occipitals on each side bordered by small elongated shields, like the 

 rest of the temples ; the eyes large, prominent ; prse-orbital one ; post- 

 orbitals three ; nasal rectangular ; nostrils lateral, large, rounded ; 

 tipper labials 9, of which the fourth, fifth and sixth border the orbit ; 

 lower labials 1 1 ; mentals two pairs, elongated. The lips are slightly 

 arched, the mouth wide ; the teeth small, crowded ; the last upper 



