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bristles spring from minute lateral tubercles. The abdominal and 
anal claspers are well developed at this stage. Subsequently the 
larva becomes onisciform, of a pale purplish colour, the derm 
thickly studded with blackish tubercles surmounted by short 
bristles. The notal plate on the second segment is still prominent, 
but that on the terminal segment has disappeared. I cannot 
detect any dorsal gland. Such a gland, which is found on many 
surface-feeding Lycsenid larvae, commonly attended by ants, 
would be of little use on an internal-feeding species. 
E. ERNEST GREEN. 
10. Lycodon striatus in Ceylon.— Peradeniya, January 31. A 
small snake, captured in a Termite’s nest, has been brought to me. 
It at once struck me as a novelty. The coloration is somewhat 
like that of Lycodon aulicus, but differs in the more diffuse 
markings. The head is proportionately smaller than in the 
common species. Reference to Boulenger’s volume (Fauna of 
British India, Reptilia and Batrachia) leads me to believe that we 
have here an example of Lycodon striatus , Shaw. It answers to 
Boulenger’s description in every particular, except that it has a 
few pale yellow scales on the median dorsal line in the region of 
the three or four anterior pale bands. This colour would probably 
fade after immersion for some time in alcohol. Moreover, colour 
differences are of small importance in the determination of 
reptiles. My example is scarcely full grown, as it measures 
only eleven and a half inches, the tail one and a third inches. 
E. ERNEST GREEN. 
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