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rubescente, anteriora versus obscuriore ; occi])itc macula albida fcrri cquini ; 

 foi-mam imitante, oruato ; gastrsco llavescentc. Sc. abd. 178 ; Sc. caud. -13. 

 Guinea. 



Boa mornata, Remh., capite scutis irrcgularibus teeto ; oculis, et uaribus 

 lateralibus, scut is labialibus plaids; obsolete fusca iu partibus posterioribns 

 diffusis maculis irregularibus uotata. Sc. abd. 264-271; Sc. caud. 07-09. 

 Porto Rico. 



A. special description of Xenodermus javanicus is given by Reinhardt, 1. c. 

 (vid. these Arcliiv. for 1S37, 1, p. ]3G). 



Glaps irreyularis, lleinli., corpore toto cseruleo-fusco. Sc.abd. 230; Sc. 

 caud. 20. Guinea. 



Bunyams fauceps, Reinh., squamis Isevibus per 13 series dispositis ; cauda 

 subtus scutis scutellisquc obtecta ; truuco supra ca;rulco, subtus flavescente, 

 capite et cauda flavescentibus. Sc. abd. 219; Scuta ct scutella caudoe, 49. 

 Java. 



Naja nigricollis, Reinh., scutis ocularibus auterioribus duobus ; supra ob- 

 scure olivacea, subtus lurida macidis fuscis couflueutibus, gulii et collo 

 nigerrimis. Sc. abd. 203 ; Sc. caud. 64. Guinea. 



Lastly, is also described by Rcinhardt (1. c.), 77//m* iidsicuntis, Daud. 



Lapemis loreatus, Gray (Ann. xi, p. 46), allied to L. Rardwickii, Gray, but 

 is larger, has no lorcal plates, and a smaller, square, anterior, ocular scutum. 

 Hab. unknown. From the 'Voyage of the Sulphur.' 



BATRACHIA. T. Wright observed in Hindostan, a frog 

 (the large yellow Ram-frog) leap a distance of four feet, and 

 seize and swallow a sparrow. (M'Clelbnd, Calcutta Journ. 

 iii, p. 284.) 



Rana arvalis, Nilsson (1. c. p. 92), nose acute, forehead between the eyes 

 flat, openings of nares apical, a black spot around the aural region, continued 

 as a black streak across the nares ; marbled black above, and with three pale 

 longitudinal bauds. Hinder toes with two and a half to three joints pro- 

 jecting beyond the web. 



Bell (1. c.) places his uew genus, Lininocliaris, between Rana and Ci/x/itj- 

 mtthus : Lingua ovalis iutegra margiue posteriore libero. Denies palatiui 

 utrinque iu fasciculis duobus dispositis, quorum alter ad margmem anteriorem 

 uarium iuteriorum, alter pone uarcs intcriores prope arcum maxillarem. 

 Nams terrniualis, truucatus ultra labium productus. Tympanum couspicuum, 

 circularc. Cut is omuino Isevis. Diyiti anteriores liberi, posteriores ad basin 

 tautum palmati. One species, L. fitscus, from Rio Janeiro, 1" 4"'. Hind 



1 ~1 /' O"' 



legs, 1 b . 



Borboroccetes, Bell, uov. gen. near Cystignathw : Lingua ovata, postice 

 libera, rotuudata, antice subacuuiinata. Denies palatiui in fasciculis binis 



