^0 Catalogue of Bejitiles. 



Colour yellowisli browii. many scales, black spotted, forming obscure 

 lines down the body. Belly yellowisli white. Each ventral with a 

 terminal black dot, forming a conspicuous chain of spots down each 

 side of abdomen. 



a. Simla. Purchased. 



C. ^STITUS, L. 



a. two specimens. North Carolina. Rev. F. Fitzgerald. 

 CHLOKOPHIS, Theobald, Gex. Nov. 



Aspect much as in Cijclophis. Head rather distinct from neck. 

 Eye moderate, round puj)il ; scales smooth, in fifteen rows. Nostril 

 between two nasals. 



C. Oldhami, Th. n. s. 



Anteocular one. Postoculars two. Loreal longish. Other head 

 shields normal, proportionate. 



Upper labials eight, regularly increasing in size. Fourth and fifth 

 enter the orbit, chin shields two pair in contact with six labials. The 

 hinder chin shields a trifle longer than the front one. First lower 

 labials form a suture, 2nd very small, 6th the largest. 



Body, 11.0 



Tail, 5.5 = 16.5. 



Colour above uniform bronze brown, beneath cuticle in spirit, blue, 

 a. young. Simla. Purchased. 



I have named this interesting ally of Cydoplns after Dr. Oldham, 

 Director of the Geological Survey of India, whose advice and encour- 

 agement, in the preparation of the present Catalogue, I should not pass 

 by unacknowledged. 



ODONTOMUS, DuMERiL et Bibron. 



* 0. NYMPHA, Daud. 



* 0. SEMiFAseiATUs, Giinth. 



* 0. GRACILIS, Giinth. Anamallies. 



NYMPHOPHIDIUM, Gunther. 



* N. 5IACULATUM, Giinth. India. 



ELACHISTODON, Reiniiardt. 



* E. WESTERMANNI, Reiuh. 



CORONELLA, Laurenti. (.<p.) 



* C. orientalis, Gimth. Dakhan. 

 C. sayi, riolbr. 



a. adult and young. North Carolina. Rev. F. Fitzgerald, 

 (labelled Homalopsis buccata.) 



