SNAKES. 67 



* Eye surrounded with small scales ; loreal 1. 



1. The HoMALOPSis. Homalopsis buccata, Schlegel, Phys. 

 Serp. 337, t. 13, f. 1. Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. t. 33. Col. subalbidus, 

 Gmelin, Syst> Nat. 1103, from Seba, ii. L 23, /. 3 ; and Merrem, 

 Beytr. t. 10, from Seha, Thes. ii. «. 12,/. 1, t. 13, /. 1. Scheuchz. 

 Phy. Sacra, t. 660, /. 1. Col. buccatus, Lin. Mus. Ad. t. 19, /. 3. 

 Coi. viperimis, Shau\ Zool. iii. 465. Col. horridus, Daud. Kept. 

 vii. 71 = Seha, ii. t. 12, f. 1. Echidna semifasciata, Mien'em, Tent. 

 150. Vipera buccata, Daud. Rept. vi. 220, viii. 395. Col. moni- 

 lis, Linn. S. N. i. 381. Demicollier, Lacep. Quad. Ovip. ii. 173, 

 t. 8,/. 2. Homalopsis monilis, Boie, Isis, xx. 566. i^i^s-. S. R. 25. 



Brown ; lips and beneath pale whitish ; back with narrow 

 cross-bands ; belly with a series of brown spots on each side ; head 

 pale bro>Mi, marked with a triangular spot on nose, a longitudinal 

 streak on occiput, and a broad streak, including the eye, on each 

 temple. 



a. In spirits. Adult. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



b — d. In spirits. India. Bengal. Presented by General Hard- 



wicke. 

 e. In spirits. Adult. India. 

 /. In spirits. Young. Batavia. 



** LJye on the top of the upper labial shields ; loreal 2. 



2. Ha rdwicke's Homalopsis. Homalopsis Hardwickii, G^my, 

 Zool. Misc. 65. 



Olive, with black-edged, pale, narrow, often intermpted cross- 

 bands : head pale, with an anterior triangular spot, and a broad 

 streak up the side of the face enclosing the eyes : chin and beneath 

 yellow : sides black-dotted : the sixteen or seventeen hinder scales 

 of the lower series keeled, and marked with a brown ring near their 

 tip on the front half of the disk, and the three scales on each side 

 of the vent with a similar transverse ridge : tail elongate, slender. 



a. In spirits. Adult. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



19. Phytolopsis. 



Head moderate, rather depressed ; crown shielded ; lips swol- 

 len : frontals 3 ; anterior verj^ small, rhombic ; posterior small ; 

 loreal as large as posterior frontal ; vertebral narrow, elongate ; su- 

 perciliary narrow ; occipital plate large : temple covered with smooth 



