64 Catalogue of Reptiles. 



b. three young. Martaban. Major Berdmore. 



Body rich reddish brown, with somewhat reticulate bars formed by 

 some of the scales being parti-colored, white in front, and deep claret 

 color behind, giving a half banded, half spotted appearance to the 

 snake. A conspicuous white collar on the nape, mottled with claret red. 

 Belly brown, spotted and mottled. 



P. modestus, Theobald. 

 Head rather thick. Anterior frontals small, broader than long. 

 Posterior frontals large, bent over the side and entering the orbit. 

 Superciliaries small. Loreal moderate. Anteoculars two, very small. 

 Postocular one, very small, with a band like sub-ocular, which excludes 

 the labials from the orbit. Scales smooth, iu fifteen rows. The verte- 

 bral series not enlarged, but the four vertebral rows faintly keeled. 

 Anal entire ; sub-caudals bifid. Upper Labials seven, 4th and 5th high, 

 under the orbit, but separated by a sub-ocular, 6th low, 7th very long 

 with two elongate temporals above it. Three pair of large transverse 

 gular shields. Above, uniform brown, below pale yellowish. 



a. type specimen. Rangoon. Col. Nuthall. 



FAMILY XENOPELTIDiE. 



XENOPELTIS, Reinwardt. 

 X. unicolor, Rein. 



a. three specimens. Pegu. Major Berdmore. 



b. two ditto. India House. 



c. one ditto. Trichinopoli. H. F. Blanford, Esq. 



d. two ditto. Andamans. Col. Tytler. 



A powerful and ferocious snake ; when alive, its color above is a deep 

 blue, with metallic iridescence. 



FAMILY PYTHONHm 



PYTHON, Daudin. 



P. RETICULATUS, Schn. 



a. young. Nicobars. Lt.-Col. Tytler. 



b. ditto. 



c. ditto. Mergui. Major Berdmore. 



d. ditto. 



e . ditto. Malacca. Rev. W. E. Lindstedt. 

 /. stuffed specimen. 



g. h. i. three do. poor state. 



P. MOLURUS, L. 



a. young. 



