62 EEPTILES. 



Acrocbordus sp., Shaw, Zool. iii. Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 425. Lacep. 

 Quad. Ovip. ii. 472, t. 11, /. 2. Shaw, N. Misc. t. 148. Zool. iii. 

 573, t. 128. Merrem, Tent. 81. 6Va^, Zoo/. Misc. 63. 



1. The AcROCHORDE. Acrochorclus Javanicus, Horst. Ahh. 

 Acad. Stock. 1797; vii. 306, t. Schlegel, Phys. Serp. ii. 428. 

 Ahhild. 55, t. 17, f. 12, 14. Boie, Isis, 1827,511. A. Javensis, 

 Daud. Rept. vii. 390. Cuvier, R. A. ii. 72. A. clubius, Shaw, 

 Zool. iii. t. 29, good. 



Adult brown ; young brown, with darker bands and streaks. 



a. In spirits. Adult. Uniform brown. Old collection. Described 



by Dr. Shaw. 



A. Javanicus, Shau; Misc. t. 141. 



b, c. In spirits. Young ; witb darker longitudinal streaks. India. 



Presented by General Hardwicke. 



A. dubius, Shaiv, MSS. Brit. Mus., in Zool. iii. t. 129. 

 d. Stuffed. Adult. Java. Presented by the East India Company. 



II. Tail conical, tapering. Belly ivith more or less broad band-like 



shields. Fluviatile. 



Hemiopbodia,/«/w. Pelopbis, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 1843. Homa- 

 lopsis and Pseudoeiyx, Fitz. N. Class. 55, 1826. Hydropbidae 

 pars, Boie, Tsis, xx. 1827. Serpents d'eau douce pars, yenus Ho- 

 malopsis, Schlegel, Phys. Serp. Colubridae pars, Gray, Ann. Phil. 

 X. 1825, 208. 



A. Head shielded. Tail scaly beneath. Nostril in a ring of small 

 scales. The abdominal shield vei-y small, six-sided, flat, keeled 

 on each side, as if formed of two scales united. Erpetonina. 



14. Eepeton. 



Head moderate ; crown shielded, with some small shields be- 

 tween the vertical and superciliary^ shields, a double set of labial 

 shields, and a compressed scaly beard on each side of the muzzle: 

 nostrils in the middle of a series of small scales: dorsal scales 

 imbricate, keeled : abdominal shield small, long, narrow : subcaudal 

 shields scarcely different from the other scales. 



Erpeton, Lacep. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1801, xlvi. 169. Ann. 

 Mus. ii. t. 150. Dumeril, Z. A. 89. Latr. Rept. iv. 190. Daud. 

 Rept. vii. 243. Cuv. R. A. ii. 68, ed. 2, ii. Gray, Ann. Phil. x. 

 1825, 209. Zool. Misc. 63, 1842. Rhinopirus, Merrem, Tent. 81, 



