24 REPTILES. 



a. In spirits. Adult. India. Presented hy Dr. Patrick Russell. 



Col. Russellii, E. W. Gray, MSS. B. M. Shaw. 

 h, c. In spirits. Adult. India. 



d. In spirits. Adult. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



e. In spirits. Half grown. India. 



/, ^. In spirits. Half grown and young. Ceylon. Presented by 



R. Terapletou, Esq., R.E. 

 h. In spirits. Young. Ceylon. Presented by Capt. Gascoigne. 



Yellow-brown ; back with three rows of roundish spots, pale 

 spotted on the edge, the front and hinder spots elongate, sometimes 

 confluent: head black-brown, with a line over each eye, a broad 

 cross-like mark on the crown and a spot before each eye ; chin and 

 beneath white, brown spotted. 



Daboia pulchella, Grat/, Zool. Misc. 69. 

 i. Stuffed. Adult. India. 



2. Russell's Katuka. Daboia Russellii, Gray, Zool. Misc. 

 Coluber, No. 32, Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. 37, t. 32. Vipera elegans, 

 var. ? Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 588. 



Pale gray-brown, with three series of darker oblong spots ; be- 

 neath white. 



Inhab. Bombay. 



Dr. Russell engraved perhaps a bad drawing of a very old spe- 

 cimen of the former : he considers it Coluber Lachesis of Dr. Shaw. 



3. The Xanthian Katuka. Daboia Xanthina. 



Pale brown ; beneath paler, closely punctulated; back irregu- 

 larly brown spotted, central series largest ; occiput with an oblong 

 dark spot on each side ; temple with an oblique brown streak, be- 

 coming broader behind from the back angle of the eyes ; lip with a 

 small brown spot under the eyes. 



a. In spirits. Adult. Xanthus. Presented by Sir Charles Fellowes. 



b. In spirits. Young. Asia Minor. Presented by A. C. Christy, 



Esq. 



2. Clotho. 



Eyes convex ; pupil oblong, erect : head short, broad : keel of 

 scales ending in a spine: superciliary shields small, scale-like: nasal 

 shield arched over the nostril and interrupted by a small shield in 

 front. Africa. 



Clotho, Gray, Zool. Misc. 69, 1842. Clotho, part, Wagler. 

 Vipera sp., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 588. Cerastes sp., Wagler, Syst. 

 Amph. 178, 1830. Echidna sp., Merrem, Tent. 150, 1820. Wagler, 

 Syst. 177, 1830, not Geoff^. Vipera and Cobra sp., Lacep. Kept. 99, 

 100. 



