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Show 178 I)H. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, labials, evidently resulting from the division of the third ; and in of them there are only two postoculars, resulting from the union of the two lower shields. One of these specimens is from Nazeerah, Assam, and the other from Darjeeling. All the other shields of the head are normal, with the exception of the occipitals, which are obliquely truncated behind in the Darjeeling specimen. Both have the pale area round the eye, the black streak between the fifth and sixth labials, and the black spots along the sides of the' ventrals. In the Darjeeling specimen, measuring 25" 2'" in length, the yellow collar is very distinct, and the scales behind it for some distance have brilliant coral-red margins, interspersed with others narrowly margined with black, and arranged in a kind of zigzag manner, which is continued all over the body, the coral-red being lost on the posterior fourth of the body and its place taken by brilliant yellow. The general colour of the scales, however, is uniform greenish olive; and their bright colours are only seen where the scales are pulled aside, when the colours are found also to involve the skin as well. This is a very common species in Darjeeling and also in Assam, and it is usually found at elevations of 4000 feet and upwards. TROPIDONOTUS HIMALAYANUS, Gthr. I. c. p. 265. Two specimens from Darjeeling agree in every particular with this species, except that one of them has a small portion of the upper anterior margin of the temporal separated as a small shield, less than one-fourth the size of the parent shield. In this specimen the quadrangular spots are brilliant brick-red, and, the general colour of the anterior part of the body is greenish olive-brown. The yellowish variegation of the anterior part of the body described by Giinther is brilliant coral-red in fresh specimens. Totallength. Tail. Ventrals. Caudals. 24" 3'" 6" 2'" 174 86 35 3 8 6 176 86 29 9 Imperfect. 170 ? The third specimen has been lately received from the same locality, but, although it agrees with all the other characters of this species, it has only seven upper labials, the third and fourth of which enter the orbit. Hab. Darjeeling, 3200 to 4000 feet. CANTORIA DAYANA, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Bens*, vol xxxix p. 208. fe • - . Body much elongate, neck very slightly contracted. Head rather flat, obtusely rounded in front; eye very "small. Rostral as high as broad, pointed above ; upper lateral margins concave. Single prefrontal wedge-shaped, with its pointed extremity directed forwards in contact with the rostral. Nasals large, with the nostrils placed behind their middles ; posterior frontals of moderate size, scale-like, nearly as large as the nasals ; vertical broad, shield-shaped, hex- |