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Show 168 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, comes on, or earlier if it is chilly. They seem, he continues, sensitive to climatic changes and carefully close their burrows with sand, so that they escape notice unless searched for. M y largest specimen out of five measures, body 6| inches, tail 5$; and all have the large black spot on the inner side of the thigh. CHARASIA DORSALIS, Gray. The verticillate arrangement of the scales of the tail is not well seen in any of the specimens in the museum, although their transverse disposition on the body is very distinct. The number of large scales along the side of the chin varies from three to five. The young is pale brown, with three broken transverse dark brown bands, one over the nape and two behind the shoulder, with about fifteen on the tail. Hab. Chita, Nagpore district, Raipur, Southern India, Mysore, Bangalore, Nilgherries to 6000 ft. (Gthr.), and Pind Dadun Khan. Its occurrence in these widely separated localities indicates that it is generally distributed over India proper. TYPHLOPS BOTHRIORHYNCHUS, Gthr. I. c. p. 174. This specimen agrees in every particular with Giinther's description of the type. It measures 10 inches in length. I received it from the Garo Hills. TVPHLOPS HORSFIELDII, Gray. Length 13| inches. Nazcerah, Assam. OLIGODON DORSALIS, Gray; Gthr. /. c. pp. 210, 211. This specimen is a female, with 188 ventrals and 37 caudals; the total length 11" 8'", the tail 1" 6'". Fifteen rows of scales. Rostral wedged in between the anterior frontals, which are transversely elongated; a deep transverse crescentic groove on its under surface. Posterior frontals large, broader than long, pentangular, prolonged on to the side of the head, forming a moderate-sized suture with the loreal and praeocular ; vertical shield-shaped, hexagonal, broad in front, as large as an occipital, Occipitals obliquely truncated in front. The nasals are completely united; but the position of the suture is indicated above. A moderate- sized quadrangular loreal. One prae- and one postocular. Temporals 1 x 2. Seven upper labials, the third and fourth entering the orbit. Two pairs of chin-shields, the anterior pair nearly twice as large as the posterior, succeeded by two pairs of scale-like shields. Lower labials six; the first pair form a broad suture behind the mental ; the second is very small, and the third very large. General colour brown, minutely spotted with black. Rostral shield with a black centre and yellowish-brown margin. A black band on the anterior and posterior frontals and anterior third of vertical, passing downwards through the eye to the upper labials, where it expands into a large subocular black spot. A broad black band over the occipitals |