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Show 680 MR. W. T. BLANFORD ON PERSIAN REPTILES. [June 7, postfrontals are in contact with the vertical, and the ventrals are not distinctly angulate. The two forms, however, are scarcely separable, as I have shown ('Eastern Persia,' ii. p. 413). The posterior maxillary tooth in the Dehbid specimen is but little if at all larger than those in front. ZAMENIS VENTRIMACTJLATUS. Bushire and Shiraz. The specimen from Bushire is the ordinary Persian form with imperfect cross bands. That from Shiraz is Giinther's var. C {Z. rhodorachis, Jan). ZAMENIS CASPIUS. Zargoom (I believe this to be Zirgan, 15 miles north-east of Shiraz). The coloration is rather peculiar : each scale has a brown longitudinal band in the middle, and is pale on both sides. There are no spots on the back. The lower parts posteriorly are dull orange ; probably in life they were bright orange or scarlet. ZAMENIS RAVERGIERI. One specimen from Dehbid. TROPIDONOTUS HYDRUS. The single specimen (which has no locality marked) is one of the exceptional individuals with but two praeoculars. CCELOPELTIS LACERTINA. Shiraz. A large specimen over 5 feet in length, with only seventeen rows of scales round the body instead of nineteen. A young individual from Constantinople, also with only seventeen rows of scales, is figured by Jan. *HYDROPHIS CYANOCINCTA. One specimen. Precise locality not marked. This is doubtless from the Persian Gulf. *HYDROPHIS TEMPORALIS, sp. nov. H. capite mediocriter longo latoque, corpore longiusculo, subimbricatis, post medium tuberculo minuto ornatis, in series 29 longitudinales paullo post caput, 33 in medio corpore ordinate; scutis ventralibus 354, bituberculatis, fere a?qualibus squamas laterales duplo excedentibus, prceanalibus 6 ; nasalibus longionbus quam lata, supralabialibus tertio quart ague infra temporalibus denique duobus utrinque maximis,marqini externo cujusque occipitalis contiguis, anteriore altiore latum etfere vel omnino ad labium descendente. Dorsum maculis rhomboideis transversis circ. 35 ornatum, postice evanescentibus. Gangestun. Head of moderate size and width. Neck and body slightly elon- |