HOMALOPSIS. 373 



SynojJsis of Indian, Ceylonese, and Burmese Genera. 



A. Nasals in contact. 

 rt. Scales keeled. 



a'. Parietal shields well developed Homalopsis, p. 373, 



b'. Occiput covered with scales Ceebekus, p. 374. 



b. Scales smooth Hypsibhina, p. 375. 



B. Nasals separated hy an iiiternasal. 



a. Veutrals smootli. 



a'. Body stout, not compressed ; no loreal . . Foedonia, p. 378. 

 b'. Body elongate, not compressed ; loreal 



present Ger aedia, p. 379. 



c. Body very elongate, compressed Caxtoeia, p. 380. 



b. Veutrals with two sharp keels IIipistes, p. 381. 



Geuus HOMALOPSIS, 

 Kuhl, iu Ferussac, Bull. Sc. Nat. ii, 1824, p. 61 (part.). 



Maxillary teeth 12, followed by two grooved faugs. Head dis- 

 tinct from ueck ; eye small, with vertically elliptical jnipil : head- 

 shields large ; nasals in contact behind the rostral, semidivided, the 



Fig. 1U9. 



-Head of Boma^upg/s huccafa. 



cleft extending from the nostril to the first labial ; interuasal single 

 or divided ; loreal present. Body stont, cylindrical ; scales dis- 

 tinctly striated and keeled, in 37 to 47 rows, without apical pits ; 

 ventrals well developed, not keeled ; tail moderate ; subcandai.* m 

 two rows. 



A single species. 



