302 Notices and Descriptions of various Beptiles. [No. 3. 



At about the same date of publication, appeared a paper by Dr. 

 Gray on some undescribed species of reptiles collected by Dr. 

 Joseph Hooker in the Khasia mountains and Sikim Himalaya. Among 

 them, his genus Dopasia approximates my Ophiseps (J. A. S. XXII, 

 655), but is evidently distinct ; the position of the vent in Dopasia 

 is not stated. Pahias maculata, Gray, is identical with Teigo- 

 nocephalus NiLGiitiENSis, Jerdon, J. A. S. XXII, 524, as we find 

 upon comparison of a fine Asamese specimen with the descriptions 

 by Messrs. Jerdon and Gray, and with a coloured figure sent by 

 Mr. Jerdon. Mr. Gray does not give the number of rows of scales 

 or of abdominal or caudal plates. Mr. Jerdon writes — " 23 rows 

 of carinated scales. Scutse 142 ; scutellae 36." The Asamese speci- 

 men has 23 rows of the first ; scutse 143 ; scutellae about 36 pairs. 

 Length 14^ in., of which tail barely 2 in. Colour pale, variegated 

 with dark blackish-edged patches on the upper parts, forming irre- 

 gular transverse bands, more or less divided and the halves alter- 

 nating ; below whitish, the plates speckled laterally with dusky ; 

 chin and sides of throat blackish ; a whitish band proceeding back- 

 ward from the eye, another from cleft of mouth, and between them 

 a black space. This Asamese specimen has an elongated black occi- 

 pital spot, succeeded by two lateral streaks which unite posteriorly ; 

 a somewhat different arrangement from that in Mr. Jerdon' s draw- 

 ing, and again different from that exhibited in an example from the 

 vicinity of Darjiling, which also has the under-parts much more 

 mottled with black ; but all are evidently identical in species. 



