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Family Ohqodontil 



SlMOTES BICATENATUS, Guntlier. 



1 Rangoon. 



Simotes trixotatus, Dum. Bibr. 

 1 Tavoy. 



Family Colubridje. 



Compsosoma radiatum, Reinw. 

 3 Mergui. 



Compsosoma melantjbum, Schlegel. 

 1 Elpbinstone Island. 



Pit as Korros, Reinw. 

 1 Mergui. 



Tropidoxotes submixiatus, Reinw. 

 3 Mergui. 



Tropidoxotus junceus, Cantor. 



1 Timiki, King Island ; 4 Sullivan Island, at 1300 feet. 



Teopidoxotes nigrocinctus, Blyth. 

 1 King Island. 



Tropidoxotes trianguligeres, Reinw. 

 3 Taing, King Island. 



Stoliczka, in 1871, described a snake from the hills between 

 Proma and. Pegu under the name of T. bellulus*. The deser- 

 tion, however, was " taken from a rather young specimen mea- 

 suring only 16 J inches ;" the coloration and several points in its 

 structure resembled Schlegel's figure of T. trianguligerus, but 

 differed from it in "the much more elongated shape of the 

 vertical, larger occipitals, only one anterior temporal, generally 

 smaller and narrower scales, and by the yellow and black bars at 

 the side of the body being differently shaped." In the foregoing 

 specimens the postoculars vary from 3 to 4, and the tem- 

 porals from 2 + 3 to 1 + 3. In view of the uncertainty which 

 Stoliczka expressed regarding T. bellulus, it is desirable that 

 it should be compared with undoubted examples of T. tri- 

 cing uligerus. 



* Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xl. pt. ii. p 432, pL xxvi. fig. 2. 



