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b. Crown shielded ; occipital shield moderate, 



* Head distinct, depressed : frontal shields 4 ; anterior 2, very small, 



triangular. 



17. Feeania. 



Head subcordate, dilated behind ; eyes large : anterior frontal 

 two pairs, transverse ; hinder upper labial divided : eye over the 

 fourth labial : body compressed ; scales smooth, lozenge-shaped, in 

 29 longitudinal rows : back keeled ; belly narrow, very convex ; tail 

 conical. 



Ferania, Gray, Zool. Misc. 67, 1842. Phytomorphus, Fitz. 

 S. R. 25, 1843, no char. Homalopsis sp., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 

 349. Anat., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 349. 



1. The Ferania. Ferania Sieboldii, Gray, Zool. Misc. 67. 

 Homalopsis Sieboldii, Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 349, t. 13, /. 4, 5. 

 Seha, ii. t. 46,/. 2. Phytomorphus Sieboldii, Fitz. S. R. 25. 



Gray-brown, irregularly cross-banded, and a pale dorsal streak ; 

 crown with two diverging brown streaks, and a central triangular 

 spot behind. 



Inhabits Bengal. Mus. Leyden. 



** Head distinct, depressed : frontals 3 ; anterior triangular, trans- 

 verse, smal ; rostral rounded. 



\ The fourth and fifth hinder upper labial shields small, with simi- 

 lar shields over them. 



18. Homalopsis. 



Head dilated behind, swollen on {he sides ; crown and face 

 shielded ; anterior frontal (sometimes divided into two) triangular ; 

 vertebral and superciliary moderate ; occipitals large ; loreal elon- 

 gate (or two short) : the labial shields behind the eye, sixth to ninth 

 divided ; anterior ones narrow, high : one anterior large and two 

 posterior oculars : eyes moderate : body thick, fusifomi : scales 

 strongly keeled, longitudinally striated : tail elongate. 



Homalopsis, Kuhl. Isis, 1826, 213. Boie, Isis, 1827, 521. 

 Gray, Zool. Misc. 64, 1842. Fitz. S. R. 25. Homalopsis sp., 

 Wagler, Syst. Amph. 169. 



