104 EEPTILES. 



c. Scales keeled ; labial shields not pitted : nostrils hetiveen two 



plates. America. 



15. Ungalia. 



Head covered with symmetrical plates : labial shields not pit- 

 ted : nostrils lateral, between two plates : eyes lateral ; pupil ellip- 

 tical, erect : scales convex, appearing keeled : subcaudal plates 

 one-rowed. 



Ungalia, Gray^ Zool. Misc. 43, 1842. Tropidophis, Dura. Sf 

 Bib. Erp. Gen. vi. 488, 1 846. Leionotus, Bibron, in Sagra Hist. Cuba, 

 1840 (not described). Erycopsis (subgenus of Ailurophis), Fitz. 

 Syst. Kept. 27, 1843 (no character). 



1. The Black-tailed Ungalia. Ungalia melanura, Gray., 

 Zool. Misc. 46. Boa melanura, 3Ius. Paris. Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 

 399. Abbild. 98, t. 26. Tropidophis melanura, Bibron, Sagra, Cuba, 

 t. 23. Erp. Gen. vi. 491. Boa pardalis, Gundlach, Wiegm. Arch. 

 1840, 359. Ailurophis Erycopsis melanura, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 27. 



Olive-violet or reddish brown, with angular black spots and 

 scattered small white spots: tail, the hinder third all black: a series 

 of small scales over the labial shields. 



Inhab. Cuba. Collection of J. P. George Smith, Esq. 



2. The Pardaline Ungalia. Ungalia maculata. Leionotus 

 maculatus, Bibron, Sagra, Cuba Rept. 212. t. 24, 1840. Tropido- 

 phis maculatus, Dum. ^ Bib. Erp. Gen. vi. 494. Boa pardalis, 

 part, Gundlach, Wiegm. Arch. 1840, 359. 



Gray-brown, fulvous or reddish, with many large round or oval 

 black spots: tail spotted like the body : no small scales over the la- 

 bial shields. 



a. In spirits. Cuba. Presented by P. B. Webb, Esq. 



b. In spirits. Young. Spanish Town, Jamaica. 



c. In spirits. Very young. Back with four, belly with two, rows 



of spots on each side. Bluefields, Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's 



collection. 



" Pardaline Snake, Gosse.''' 



