Catalogue of Bejjiiles. 69 



Eye very small, over 3rd and 4tli labials. Siiperciliarles very large. 

 Six upper labials, 1st small, the rest large, subcqual, regular. 



Color greenish-olive above, yellow, below with narrow distant black 

 cross bars, formed on the belly of only single black scales ; chin shields 

 two pairs, approximate : 4th and 5th lower labials large. 



H. coRONATA, Gimther. 



H. ohscicraj Dumeril^ Mus. label. 



a. adult. Hidgilli. H. L. Ilaughton, Esq. 



This specimen was labelled H. ohscura, but accords minutely with 

 Gunther's description of if. coronata. 



H. sTRiCTicoLLis, Giiutlier. 



H. obscura, Daud. 3Ius. label. 

 a.adult. Hidgilli. H. L. Ilaughton, Esq. 



A variety probably of this s^Decies, though not quite corresponding 

 with Giinther's description. 



Scales on neck in 35 rows ; on body in 45, with an indistinct central 

 tubercular keel : one anteocular, one postocular : 3rd upper labial does not 

 touch nasal ; 3rd and 4th enter the orbit ; one large anterior temporal, 

 two small posterior ones, alongside of the occipital. Ventrals entire, 

 broader than adjoining scales, very obscurely three-keeled^ No enlarged 

 prii3anals. Above blackish olive, below yellowish, faintly 'dark banded ; 

 markings blended and obscure. 



H. CHLORis, Daud. 



H. gracilis^ Shaw apud Blytli. 

 H. Lindsayi, Gray (?) 



a, Akyab. — Dunn, Esq. 



&. Sandheads. 



These specimens accord very well with H. cJdoris as described by 

 Gihither, save that the rostral is quite as high as broad. In this 

 single character, they resemble H. Lindsay!, Gray, which must, therefore 

 be held to be very doubtfully distinct from the present species, the 

 only other differences seeming to be insufficient for specific separation, 

 such as coloration and the number of ventral shields, which |)e?' se, when 

 weighed against the strict agreement of all the other characters, are 

 conijjaratively unimportant. 



H. GiJNTUERi, Theobald. 



Scales on neck in 43 rows, on middle of body in 51, strongly keeled, 

 subequal. Ventrals undivided, bi-tubcrcular : one ante-ocular, one 

 postocular. Upper labials six; 2nd very large, 3rd and 4th enter the orbit; 

 (5th low, wedged between two temporals. A large upper temporal in 



