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a few blackish, marks are indicated ; scales in 23 rows, posterior 

 frontals markedly smaller than the anterior, which form only a 

 very narrow sntnre, eighth upper labials, the second and third small, 

 situated below the posterior nasal shield, the fourth and fifth enter 

 the orbit, the eight labial is the longest of all, but only as high as 

 the second and third ; the first lower labials form a long suture ; 

 the preanal is entire but deeply grooved in the middle, the groove 

 beginning at the previous shield ; the second and third subcaudals 

 are entire. 



I have often observed uniformly olive coloured full grown speci- 

 mens on the hills between Simla and Missuri and the plains, but 

 whether they offer similar variations in the head shields, as the 

 young form I have just noted, I am unfortunately not in a position 

 to ascertain just at present. 



This wide spread species also occurs on the Andaman islands, but 

 does not seem to be common. One specimen, 22 inches long, lately 

 sent to me by Mr. H o mf r ay is, above, markedly blackish brown 

 with very numerous, narrow, transverse, slightly angular pale bands, 

 the angles being directed forward ; a single large pale spot with a 

 blackish centre on the middle of the neck ; below, the chin and 

 anterior part of the throat are yellowish, followed by two indistinct, 

 broad, dark cross bands ; the rest of the lower part is greenish ashy, 

 the subcaudal scales are divided by a zigzag blackish line. A full 

 grown snake from the Andamans does not exhibit any difference 

 from the continental form. The species is as yet unknown at the 

 Nicobars. 



71. Callophis mtestvialis, L a u r. (G ii n t h e r. 1. cit. p. 348). 



I received a specimen of this interesting species from Upper 

 Burma. It is brown with the pale dorsal streak one scale broad ; the 

 black borders on either side are not very conspicuous ; the lateral 

 stripe is pure white, slightly narrower than the dorsal, and is 

 situated between the last and before last series of scales. Yen- 

 trals 267. 



The poison glands are of exactly the same shape as de- 

 scribed in this species by Mr. Mayer in a paper lately (1869) 

 published in the Monathsberichte of the Berlin Akademy. They are 



