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black stripe, and dorsal row of black spots ; white black- 

 edged neck-streak ; belly yellowish. 

 Ce3'lon. 



NEW CALAMARIDiE. 



Mr. Theobald has made two new genera of Calamaridse 

 for two aberrant specimens, a third new genus for an 

 aberrant Ahlahes and he restores Glinther's abandoned 

 genus Trachischiuni for Ahlahes fuscus. 



Falconeria gen. nov. (Theohald). 



Scales 17, keeled. One anterior frontal ; postfrontal enters 

 the orbit ; labials 5. Anal and subcaudals double. Loreal 

 ■ present. F. hengaleiisis. 



Blythia gen. nov. {Theohald). 



Scales 13, smooth. Two pairs of frontals. Loreal and 

 preocular none, both merged in postfrontal. Anal and 

 subcaudals bifid. 



B. reticulata, formerly Calaraaria reticulata, Blyth. 

 Grotea gen. nov. {Theobald). 

 Proposed for Ahlahes hicolor. 



Family IX.— HOMALOPSID^E. 



Body cylindrical ; head thick, not very distinct from the 

 neck ; tail moderate, compressed at the root. Scales often 

 strongly keeled ; ventrals rather narrow, anal bifid. Eye 

 small, prominent. Nostril superior, small, valvulated ; nasals 

 large, encroaching on the size of the anterior frontals (which 

 are often confluent). Head-shields generally tend to deviate 

 from the normal arrangement. The last tooth is transi- 

 tional between an ordinary tooth and a fang, but there is 

 no evidence that the saliva is poisonous. They live in rivers 

 and estuaries, rarely coming to land. 



