132 W. T. Blanford—Wotes on Reptilia. [No. 3, 
jiling, and, subsequently, Dr. Anderson obtained another from the Govern- 
ment Cinchona Plantation in Sikkim. 
The specimen taken by myself is much larger than the type, and mea- 
sures 32 inches in length, of which the tailis 4. It was caught in the 
dusk of evening on the road round Birch-hill, at an elevation of rather less 
than 7000 feet above the sea. When taken it appeared sluggish and made 
no attempt to bite. 
HyproPHISs LAPEMOIDES. 
A specimen, sent from Gwadar in Baluchistan by Major Mockler and 
collected, doubtless, on the Makran coast, agrees so well with Dr. Giinther’s 
description of H. lapemoides that I have no doubt it must be assigned to 
that species. The dorsal scales, in the posterior part of the body especially, 
have a short tubercular keel, but on the lateral scales there is only a central 
tubercle. Thirty-five black rings round the trunk, the anterior rings imper- 
fect below. Length 153 inches, of which the tail measures 1:6 and the 
cleft of the mouth 0-4. 
HYDROPHIS LATIFASCIATA. 
A specimen, agreeing very fairly with the description of this species 
(of which the type was procured from Mergui), has been sent to me by 
Captain Spearman from Pegu. ‘There are, however, one or two characters 
which seem to shew a tendency to a passage into H. coronata. The lateral 
scales on the hinder stout portion of the body have a slightly elongated 
tubercle rather than a keel, and the ventrals bear two such tubercles. Even 
on the dorsal scales, the keel does not extend half the length of the scale. 
The coloration agrees with the description of that found in H latifascia- 
ta so far, that the yellow rings are very imperfect and the blackish colour 
covers a much larger portion of the body, the whole of the lower part of 
the anterior two-thirds being black and the yellow rings being only faintly 
traceable across the band throughout the thicker part of the trunk, they 
extend in general across the neck, though narrower on the upper surface, 
and appear in the anterior part of the body as well-defined transverse spots, 
but on the thicker portion and tail they are only conspicuous as elongated 
oval spots with indistinct edges along the sides. There are 56 of these 
imperfect yellow rings on the neck and body, 9 on the tail. Length 27 
inches, neck about one-third of the whole, cleft of mouth 0:3 inch, tail 32. 
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