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Under the head of Oligodon, I have only to remark that I believe 

 the figure of Russell 1, pi. 19, which has been called Col. tcsniolotus, 

 but generally referred to the young of Tripidonotus stolatus, refers 

 to a species of Oligodon. The general aspect, short head, markings, 

 short tail and few sub-caudal scuta are all marks of that group, and 

 the presence of palatine teeth recorded by Russell is not a certain 

 negative sign, for I see that several of this group have lately been 

 shown to possess them. Whether this snake can be referred to 

 pne of the lately described species or not, it must (in case my obser- 

 vations are verified) stand as Oligodon tceniolatum, 



I lately procured two species of CyclopJiis in the Khasi hills. 

 One of them appears to be Cyclophis frcenatus of Gr ii n t h e r, de- 

 scribed from Afghanistan and Mesopotamia. The only difference 

 I can detect in the description is, that in my specimen, the 

 temporals are 2 — j— 2, the first temporal having apparently a small 

 one cut out of its anterior edge. Length of my specimen 14 J, the 

 tail being 4£. 



A specimen* in the Museum (No. 81£), marked Dipsas monticola, 

 Cantor apud B 1 y t h, appears to be the same species ; a second 

 small black mark begins behind and below the gape, continued as a 

 line of specks on two or three lowest series of scales, and finally just 

 forming a dark edging above and below the last row of long scales, 

 and is lost on the posterior part of body ; below pale yellow. 



The other species is a much smaller snake, a female, only 7|- 

 inches long, having 5 large eggs in her f X j\ of an inch. The 

 tail was 1£. The single large nasal is posteriorly obliquely slit up to 

 the edge, one preocular and two postoculars ; the supraciliaries small 

 and occipitals large ; 15 scales; ventral scuta 127 to 135, and 33 

 to 38 sub-caudals. The color is brown, with a pale lateral band 

 from the eye extending to the tip of the tail ; below this a mottled 

 brown and yellowish band; chin, throat and anterior part of 

 neck yellow, the rest of the lower parts red. Upper labials 6, 

 normally, the last three sub-equal in size, and not as in framatm 

 where the 6th is as largo as the 4th or 5th together ; temporals 1+1. 

 I propose for this one the name of Cyclophis rubriventer. 



I obtained one small specimen of a snake in lower hills of the 



* This ia to all appearance the type of B 1 y t h's D. monticola. Cant. [Edit.] 



