68 REPTILES. 



scales: rostral square, convex: anterior (5-5) labial occupying the 

 front of the muzzle, very narrow, high ; the hinder small, short, 

 with two or three rows of scales above them : lower labial similar, 

 but the hinder front one rather broader ; the hinder one small, 

 short, square: chin shields one pair, veiy large: body fusiform; 

 scales not keeled, apparently smooth, but very minutely longitudi- 

 nally striated : tail short, conical, tapering ; subcaudal plate two- 

 rowed. 



1. The Phytolopsis. Phytolopsis punctata. 



Greenish olive, with a yellow dot in the centre of many of the 

 scales, forming together indistinct cross-bands : lips and lower part 

 of the sides (l^ series of scales high) and under-side yellow. 



a. In spirits. India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



ff The hinder labial large^ like the others ; scales heeled. 



20. Uraxops. 



Head short, broad ; crown shielded ; occipital shields mode- 

 rate : frontals 3, small ; anterior triangular: nostrils sublateral, on 

 upper edge of single shield : loreal 1 , small : one high anterior and 

 two square posterior oculars : labial moderate ; the fourth larger, 

 under the eye, and forming the edge of the orbit ; the hinder larger, 

 entire: eyes moderate, sublateral: scales large, truncated, very 

 shortly keeled and deeply striated. 



Uranops, Fitz. S. R. 25, 1843, not described. Dum. &r Bib. 

 Erp. Gen. 6, ined. Homalopsis sp., Boie^ Schlegel. 



1. The Uranops. Uranops angulatus, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 25, 

 1843. Helicops angulatus, fVagler^ Sgst. Amph. 171. Col. angu- 

 latus, Li7in. Mus. Adolph. i. 23, t. 15,/. 1. Merrem, Beytr. ii. 32, 

 t.Q. Homalopsis angulata, Boie, Isis^-Kx. ool. Schlegel, Phys. 

 Serp. 351, t. 13, /. 24, 25. Natrix aspera, JVagler, Serp. Braz. 

 t. 13. Col. Surinamensis, Shaw, Zool. iii. 460, from Scheuch. Ph. 

 Sacr. t. 630, B. t. 653, /. 3, t. 737, /. 3. Seba, ii. t. 24, /. 2, t. 59, 

 /. 2. 



Dark olive, with darker rhombic cross-bands ; hinder part of 

 upper lip, lower lip, lower part of sides and beneath white ; scales 

 large, very strongly and sharply keeled, truncated at the tip ; head 

 broad ; eyes small ; one large and two moderate posterior oculars ; 



