380 COLUBEID^. 



Genus CANTORIA. 



Girard, Proc. Ac. Pliilad, 1857, p. 182. 



Ten or eleven teeth in each maxillary, last longest and grooved. 

 Head small, not distinct from neck ; eye very small, with vertically 

 subelliptical pupil ; head-shields large ; nostril in a semidivided 

 nasal, the cleft of which extends to the prsef rental ; a single inter- 



Fig. 111. — Head of Cantoria cio/acca. 



nasal, separating the nasals ; loreal present. Body very elongate, 

 slightl}' compressed ; scales smooth, in 19 rows, without apical ])its ; 

 ventrals well developed, not keeled ; tail moderate ; subcaudals in 

 two rows. 



A single species. 



472. Cantoria violacea. 



Cantoria violacea, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 182 ; id. U. S. 



Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 156, pi. xi, figs. 7-10; Cope, Proc. Ac. 



Philad. 18()6, p. 312 ; Liitk. Vid. Meddel. 1866, p. 151. 

 Ilvdrodipsas elapiformis, Pders, MB. Al;. Berl. 1859, p. 270, pi. — , 



fig. 1. 

 Cantoria elongata, Gilnth. Rept. B. I. p. 277. 

 llemiodoutns elapiformis, Jan, Icon. Ophid. 28, pi. vi, fig. 2. 

 Cantoria elajnformis, Giinth. Zool. Pec. 1{<68, p. 124. 

 Cantoria dayana, StoUczlxa, J. A. S. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, p. 208, 



pi. xi, fig. 5 ; A7iders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 178 ; Theoh. Cat. p. 181. 



Frontal a little longer than broad, shorter than its distance from 

 the end of the snout or than the parietals ; eye between four shields, 



that Eydoux's Coluber prcvostiamis was described together with the Ceylonese 

 Uropeitis lihilipiJinus as from Manilla would suggest the possibility of the former 

 having likewise been obtained from Ceylon ; however, there is no evidence of 

 this being the case, and Pegu remains the only authenticated habitat. Theobald's 

 specimens were obtained from the Bassein River. 



