Catalogue of Eeptiles. 57' 



T. MoRTONi^ Theobald. 



Scales strongly keeled, in nineteen rows. 



Anteoculars two, the lowest most minute, looks like a fragment 

 detached from the second labial. Postoculars three small, equal ; on 

 one side all united into a narrow band, half as broad but almost equal 

 in length to the superciliary. Anterior frontals squarish, truncate in 

 front, posterior frontals broader than long. Loreal small. Anal bifid. 



Upper labials seven, third and fourth enter the orbit. Two pair 

 large chin shields. The hinder ones rather larger and longer. Colour 

 (bleached) pale brown with a darker vertebral stripe. On the side 

 of body, obsolete rows of white (yellow) splash-like or linguiform 

 spots, those bordering the vertebral stripe being conspicuous and 

 cateniform, and occupying the upper basal portion of the scale. A few 

 dark spots subordinately intermingled, but which form a sort of 

 cateniform line each side of the spine. Belly yellowish. JN^o marks on 

 the head. 



a. type. 



Labelled " Homolopsis^^ by Mr. Carlyle, but no note of 

 donor or locality. 



This species seems to approach nearest to T. tigrinus, but the 

 coloration is entirely different. 



I have much pleasure in naming it after Dr. Morton, Civil Surgeon 

 of Port Blair, who has most obligingly forwarded me, oh more than 

 one occasion, interesting collections from Port Blair and the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



ATEETIUM, Cope. 



A. ScHisTosuM, Daud. 



a. many specimens. Lower Bengal. 



I. Ditto. A. C. L. Carlyle, Esq. 



XENOCHBOPHIS, aiJNTHER. 

 X. CERASOG ASTER, Cantor. 



a. Lower Bengal. ? 



FOWLEA, TUEOBALD. 



A. Tropidonotus, with smooth scales and the aspect o^ Hijpsirhina. 



F. Peguensis, Theobald. 



Head as in Tropidonotus. Upper labials nine. The fourth and fifth 

 enter the orbit. Anteocular one, Postoculars three, Loreal one 

 squarish, Nasals two, Frontals two ^oair, anterior ones small and pointed. 

 Vertical moderate, Superciliaries and Occipitals large. Anal bifid. 



