74 EEPTILES. 



6. Bennett's Hypsirhina. Hypsirliina Beniiettii, Gray, 

 Zool. Misc. Q7. 



Above blackish gray, with a broad and three narrow black 

 streaks on the nape ; back with three series of irregular blackish 

 spots ; white side streak and three scales towards dark streak nar- 

 row, margined ; beneath white ; front and side edge of abdominal 

 and subcaudal shields black, varied with a spot in the centre of the 

 front margin of the former : scales in 20 rows : tail compressed 

 (injured). 



a. Inspirits. China. With a large vesicular cavity formed by the 



skin on the right side of the neck, which appears to communi- 

 cate with the lunffs. 



b. In fluid. China. Presented by J. S. Bowerbank, Esq. 



26. Farancia. 



Head distinct, rather depressed : frontals 3 ; anterior triangular, 

 tra^nsverse ; posterior 2, broad, bent down on the sides : vertebral 

 plates broad, six-sided ; superciliary narrow in front ; occipitals 

 elongate ; nostrils sublateral, small, in the middle of a four-sided 

 plate, with a line to the lower edge ; one oblong four-sided anterior, 

 two posterior oculars, the lower smallest : eyes over the suture of 

 the third and fourth labial ; the upper labial entire ; the hinder 

 large ; the seventh largest and highest : body fusiform ; scales 

 rhombic, in 19 or 21 series, smooth: ventral shields rather narrow, 

 rounded : tail conical ; subcaudal plates two-rowed. 



Farancia, Gray, Zool. Misc. 68, 1842. Hydrops sp., Wagler, 

 Syst. 



I. The Wampum Snake. Farancia fasciata. Hydrops 

 Reinwardtii, Gray, Zool. Misc. 67, 1842. Homalopsis Reinwardtii, 

 Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 357. Helicops abacurus, Holbrook, N. Amer. 

 Erp. iii. Ill, ^ 26, 1842. Hydrops abacure, Dum. ^ Bib. Erp. 

 Gen. t. 65. Wampum Snake, Catesby, Carol, t. 58. Vampun, 

 Lacep. Quad. Ovip. ii. 279, from Cat. Coluber fasciatus, Shaw, 

 Nat. Misc. viii. t. 266. Zool. iii. 463. Farancia Drummondi, 

 Gray, Zool. Misc. 68. 



Reddish brown, shining; beneath yellowish ; sides and beneath 

 with large square yellow and brown spots ; middle of belly brown ; 

 tail veins short ; lips and throat dark-spotted. 



a — c. In spirits. Adult. New Orleans. From Mr. Sale's collec- 

 tion. 



