48 Cafalof/ue of Be}>files. 



bright deep coral red, mottled with black, tongue red. Sometimes 

 anal deep red, with a black baud behind the vent. Common about 

 KauorQon and Pesru. 



a. type specimen. Rangoon. W. Theobald, 



• Junr., Esq. 



S. oBscuEus, Th. n. s. 



Form stout, scales smooth, in nineteen rows. Anal entire. Rostral 

 well produced backwards. Anterioii' frontals narrow, oblique, their hinder 

 points almost reaching the vertical (in one specimen they do). Poste- 

 rior frontals rhomboidal. Vertical and occipitals very broad. Loreal 

 minute. Preeocular one : postoculars two. in all equal. Upper labials 

 eight; fourth and fifth enter the orbit; fifth highest, narrow. Three 

 pair of chin shields, the second just touching the fifth lower labial. 

 Ventrals broad. Tail very stout. Colour uniform yellowish dusky, 

 darker beneath. 



a. two specimens. 

 A somewhat aberrant Siniotes (?) without any record of donor 

 or locality. 



S. CRASsus, Th. n. s. 



Scales smooth, in nineteen rows. Praeoculars two; the lowest is small, 

 and looks like a detached piece of the 4th lower labial. Postoculars 

 two, small, sub-equal. Anterior frontals not much smaller than poste- 

 rior ones. Vertical pentagonal, straight in front, sides converging. 

 Occipitals very broad in front, just touching lowest postocular. Upper 

 labials nine, 5th and 6th enter the orbit, 8th largest. Chin shields three 

 pairs, with a median groove between. 



Colour uniform brown throughout, with faint markings on the head, 

 yellowish beneath. 



This specimen was, by a clerical error, labelled " Cerhems hooeformis^ 

 Loiver Bengal" and is so rammed into its bottle, that I do not like to 

 corapletel}' extract it for closer examination. It must be nearly three 

 feet long, and is stout in j^roportion. No record of donor. 



FAMILY COPtONELLID^. 



ABLABES, DuMERiL et Bibron. 



A. TENUICEPS, Blytli. 



Calamaria tenuiceps, BIythy J. A. S., XXIII., p. 288. 

 a. type in bad state. Darjiling. Major Sherwill. 



This species, by its thirteen rows of scales, is a transitional form 

 towards the Gala mar uke, but with the plates of the head normal and 

 none united as in that Family. Tliis character of some of the plates of 

 the head being united, which marks the Calaynaridce, induces me to 

 exclude from this genus two species included by Giinther, — Ahlahes 

 fuscus, B. and Ahlahes hicolor,'B. separated in this Catalogue as Grotea. hi- 

 colorsLud Tracldschuimfusciiin,ixu.(]L]joth.in(AudQd among the Galamaridce. 



