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eye, and the four black specks on the two occipital plates. Upon 

 the nape is a longitudinal black stripe, followed by a series of black 

 spots along the spine, the first few of them being round, the rest 

 gradually assuming the appearance of short transverse bands, much 

 more regular and placed nearer together than as represented by 

 Eussell: towards the tail they diminish in size, and upon it are 

 reduced to a series of minute black specks. Their number, 

 from head to base of tail, amounts to 75. Alternating with the 

 dorsal bands is, on each side, a series of smaller lateral transverse 

 bands, which begin on the sides of the neck as large round black 

 spots, following two oblique streaks behind the eye, and disappear 

 altogether on the tail. They are placed with great regularity ; and 

 on the borders of the abdominal scutsB is a further series of black 

 spots. Such are the markings of our larger specimen, these being 

 of an unmixed black. In our smaller example, all the dorsal black 

 bands have the middle of each scale marked with the pale clay-colour 

 which constitutes the general ground-tint, the lateral streaks are 

 less decided, but the spots on the borders of the scutse are more so, 

 and every alternate scuta has an additional spot near each lateral 

 margin. There are 19 rows of perfectly smooth (or not carinated) 

 imbricated scales. Eye rather large : a great upper and small lower 

 prse-orbital ; one large subquadrate frsenal; two post-orbitals : and 

 the fifth and sixth labials border the eye below. Scutse 207-8; 

 scutellse 98 pairs. Length of our larger specimen 36 1 in., of which 

 tail 9| in. 



0. PiOTirs, Daudin; G. PMnii, Merrem (Eussell, I, 29). Of this 

 little known species, Mr. Jerdon has favoured us with a young 

 example, from S. India. It is a true Coluber, and not a variety of 

 Coeonella baliodeiba, Schlegel, as suspected by Dr. Cantor.* 



Hebpetodbyas Helena, (Daudin). In the Society's museum 

 are two specimens of a Snake, from Darjiling and Eungpore respec- 

 tively, which may represent a variety of this species. Colour nearly 

 uniform brown above, yellowish- white below with two lateral rows of 

 dusky specks, one speck on each side of every abdominal scuta ; a 

 slight dusky streak from behind the eye ; a trace of a black V-like 

 mark on the nape ; and very obscure indications of body-markings 



* J. A. S. XVI, 913. 



