1870.] Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. 191 



length. All the Andaman specimens are generally dark brown, and 

 have on the back of the fore part of the body two longitudinal black 

 bands edged with whitish, and a pale band is also noticed on either 

 side of the body ; the three median rows of black spots are more or 

 less confluent ; on th£ posterior part of the body the longitudinal 

 bands become obsolete, and the 5 rows of spots are very distinctly 

 traceable. The subcaudals vary from 60 to 90, and the ventrals from 

 125 to 150. The Andaman variety has received on account of its 

 peculiar coloration a new name by B 1 y t h. The specimen described 

 by Mr. Theobald as I 7 , striolatus, B 1 y t h, is to all appearance 

 the same as the one published by B 1 y t h under the name Tytleri. 

 B 1 y t h had first affixed the former name to the Museum label, 

 but in writing his note about the snake, or during the press of 

 the paper, he appears to have changed the specific name into 

 Tytleri. It is, as already noticed, certainly only a variety of quincunc- 

 tiatus, and I have other specimens from the Andamans which per- 

 fectly agree with the type, having the longitudinal bands obsolete, 

 and again others which are almost uniform brown, having the dark 

 spots nearly quite obsolete. The streaks below and posterior to the 

 eye are never absent. 



48. Tropidonotus stolatus, Linn. (G ii nth. 1. cit. p. 266). 

 Common about Moulmein and at Amherst. In several specimens 



the longitudinal bands were on the front part of the body indistinct, 

 and the posterior edges of the supraorbitals, occipitals and of the 

 vertical were spotted with black, 



49. Tropidonotus platyceps, B 1 y t h, (Gr ii n t h e r, loc. cit. 



p. 264). 



Zamenis Mmalayanus, Steindachner, 1867, Verhandl. zool. bofc. 



Gesellsch., Wien 5 XVII, p. 513, pi. XIII, fig. 1-3. 



I obtained lately through my collector three specimens of this 

 species from the Kulu vally. One is injured, it is a young specimen, 

 and has the whole of the epidermis taken off. The snake then has 

 a light bluish or leaden grey colour, many scales with white specks 

 and the whole surface is checkered with black. 



Another specimen is a male, 1 9 inches long of which the tail is 

 4£ inches ; ventrals 205, subcaudals 82, all scales with the excep- 



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