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 TRIMERESURUS STRIGATUS.

"The shield forming the front part of the facial pit is separate from the second upper labial. Supra-ciliary shield narrow; no large shields behind the rostral. The wholo upper surface of the head is covered with small, nearly smooth scales. Nine or ten upper labials, becoming smaller in size behind. Scales distinctly keeled, in twenty-one series. Ventrals 136-142; sub-caudals 31-40. Tail but slightly prehensile, terminating in a short cervical scale." (Giinther.)

Sir Joseph Fayrer says-"A specimen in the Indian Muscum measures fourteen inches and a half; girth one inch and a quarter; it is brown, with a line of darker coloured, irregular vertebral spots. It has a horseshoe-shaped whitish mark on the neck. There is a triangular dark spot below the eye and loreal pit, and a dark brown band leading from the eye to the neck. The lower jaw and belly marked with black spots. The end of the tail terminates in a scale; in young specimens it is white." It is found on the Neilgherries, Anamallies, and Deccan. It does not measure more than nineteen inches.

LIalys Tlimalayanus.

Günther describes the sake as follows:-“Snout of moderate length, broader than long, with the nose rather protruding Rostral shield oblique, higher than broad; frontals well developed, not broken up into smaller shields. The anterior frontals sliort, transversely produced, and tapering on the sides; both taken together form a sort of croscont. Posterior frontals large, somewhat pointed in front, and rounded behind. Vertical and supra-ciliaries as usual in this genus; occipitals rather small, rounded. Five upper labials, a sixth and seventh being confluent with the temporals; the second is small, not entering the margin of the facial pit; the third enters the orbit. There is a