No. 39. — 1889.] ZOOLOGICAL TABLES. 



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26 Coluber Helena. 

 Reddish olive. Black, numerous reticulated transverse 

 bands, enclosing ocelli ; two parallel longitudinal bands above 

 an oblique band each side of neck, a line along occipital 

 suture, an oblique band from eye along edge of ninth labial. 

 Brown, a broad lateral posterior band running to tip of tail. 

 White or yellow, a double row of lateral ocelli. 



27 Dendrophis pictus. 

 Bronze. Black, a band commencing behind eye and forming 

 an edge to lateral band, sometimes an edge below. Yellow, 

 broad lateral bands and a vertebral line anteriorly. 



28 Dendrophis caudolineatus. 



Belly pale yellow. Bronze. Black, two bands from a little 

 behind head to root of tail, four narrow lines from posterior 

 half of back to root of tail, a vertebral and abdominal band 

 on tail. 



29 Tropidonotus ceylonensis. 



Belly becomes grayish posteriorly. Brownish olive. Black 

 edges of ocelli dilated into cross bands, band from eye along 

 neck. White or yellow, a single row of large lateral ocelli. 



32 Tropidonotus plumbicolor (adult). 

 Belly dirty white. Dirty green. Black, blotches here and 

 there, the remains of markings in the young. 



33 Helicops schistosus. 

 Blackish olive as far as the lower labials and one or two 

 lower rows of scales, which are the same as belly. 



44 BUNGARUS C^RULEUS. 



a. — Blackish. V 



b. — Blackish. White, dorsal streaks in pairs. 



c. — Blackish. White, a vertebral series of spots from which 

 narrow transverse streaks proceed. 



Section g. 



Belly white or yellow, with a greater or lesser number of 

 black spots laterally. 



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