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Genus CANTORIA, 

 Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad, 1857, p. 182. 



Ten or eleven teeth in each maxillary, last longest and grooved. 

 Head small, not distinct from neck ; eye very small, with vertically 

 subelliptical pupil ; head-shields large ; nostril in a semidivided 

 nasal, the cleft of which extends to the prsefrontal ; a single inter- 



Fig. 111. Head of Co.ntoria vio/acca. 



nasal, separating the nasals ; loreal present. Body very elongate, 

 slightly compressed ; scales smooth, in 19 rows, without apical pits ; 

 ventrals well developed, not keeled ; tail moderate ; subcaudals in 

 two rows. 



A single species. 



472. Cantoria violacea. 



Cantoria violacea, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 182 ; id. U. S. 



Explor. Exped,, Herp. p. 156, pi. xi, figs. 7-10 ; Cope, Proc. Ac. 



Philad. 1866, p. 312 ; Liitk. Vid. Meddel 1866, p. 151. 

 Hydrodipsas elapiformis, Peters, MB. Ak. JBerl. 1859, p. 270, pi. , 



fig. 1. 



Cantoria elongata, Giittth. Kept. B. I. p. 277. 

 Hemiodontus elapiformis, Jan, Icon. Opliid. 28, pi. vi, fig. 2. 

 Cantoria elapiformis, Giinth. Zool. Rec. 1868, p. 124. 

 Cantoria dayana, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, p. 208, 



pi. xi, fig. 5 ; Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 178 ; Theob. Cat. p. 181. 



Frontal a little longer than broad, shorter than its distance from 

 the end of the snout or than the parietals ; eye between four shields, 



that Eydoux's Coluber prevostianus was described together with the Ceylonese 

 Uropeltis philippinus as from Manilla would suggest the possibility of the former 

 having likewise been obtained from Ceylon ; however, there is no evidence of 

 this being the case, and Pegu remains the only authenticated habitat. Theobald's 

 specimens were obtained from the Bassein Eiver. 



