Kg Catalogue of Reptiles. 



Scales smooth, lozenge-shaped, on neck in seventeen, on body in fifteen 

 ^Colour of male dark nmber brown, beneath white ; colonrs distinctly 

 "^^^^t^^mottW largely with yellow, which colonr 

 sometimes predominates. 



a. adult male, (type.) Rangoon. W. Theobald, 



Junr., Esq. 

 Captured by E. Fowle, Esq., who is one of the very few 

 who have liberally aided me in the study of our Indian 

 reptiles. 



CADMUS, Theobald. 



TToorl fMr* cuneiform. Form stout, but otherwise much like Tro- 

 P S^1 ScZt smooth, in 27 rows. Anal bifid, eye moderate, 

 pnpil round. 



C. CTJNBiioRMis, Theobald. 



•Rn^tral laree running well back on the top of the head and encroach- 

 ing bttwVen^ne auterior frontals. Nostril between two nasals, 

 interior frontals very small. Posterior frontals large. Lorea small, 

 trianSrlar with apex between anteocular and posterior frontal An- 

 teocufar oAe large P postocular three, upper labial seven, only the fourth 



"SCSng in front, pointed, stout and cuneiform A large 

 paSof chfn-shieldsii contact with 5 labials and followed by a small 



^Colour yellowish olive brown. An obsolete band of spots, down the 

 back cm each side of spine, and lower on the side a strongly defined 

 i^A nf black snots many of them like a hollow horseshoe four sea es 

 1 £ d P usky wbL, with an elongate streaky spot at the side 

 between each 4th and 5th ventral. 



a. type. Simla. Purchased. 



This very curious snake partakes of the characters of Tropidonotus 

 and Hypsirhina even more than Pegua does. 



TOMODON, Dumeril et Bibron. 



T. STRiaATUS, Dura, et Bib. 



a. specimen injured. Calcutta. Mr. C. Swaries. 



Tbiq specimen is so crushed that I cannot make out its head shields, 

 b J it awe^s to be identical with a single specimen obtained by 

 Jlf Sma It is not included in Gunther's Indian Eeptiles, but 

 ^ecordeeffrmn India in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Colubrine Snakes, p. 52. 



Perhaps Hypsirhina plumbea, 



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