108 EEPTILES. 



** Muzzle shelving^ rather produced beneath. 



20. GONGYLOPHIS. 



Head covered with small keeled scales : muzzle covered with 

 shields ; frontal one pair, moderate : nose tnmcated or cut square : 

 rostral wedge-shaped: jaws equally long: throat-fold none: nos- 

 trils lateral, triangular, linear, between three plates, one internasal 

 and two nasals : eyes lateral ; pupil elliptical, erect : body fusiform : 

 tail conical, with a conical scale at the tip : scales of the back and 

 tail keeled, convex. 



Gongj'lophis, Wagler, Syst. Amph. 192, 1830. Gray^ Zool. 

 Misc. 43, 1842. Boa sp., Schneider, Schlegel. Eryx sp., Guerin, 

 Iconog. Dum. ^ Bib. Tortrix sp., Schlegel. Scytale sp., Guerin, 

 Iconog. 



1. The Padain Cootoo. Gongylophis conica. Gray, Zool. 

 Misc. 45. Boa conica, Schn. Amph. ii. 268. Denkschr. Munich, 

 vii. 119, I. 6, /. 2. Schlegel, Phys. Serp. ii. 399. Eryx conicus, 

 Dum. ^ Bib. Erp. Gen. vi. 470. B. ornata, Daud. Rept. v. 210. 

 B. viperina, Shaw, Zool. iii. 355, t. 100. Padain Cootoo, Russell, 

 Ind. Serp. i. 5, t. 4. Vipera orientalis, Seba, Thes. ii. 82, t. 78, f. 1, 

 78, /. 4. Daud. Rept. vi. 50? Eryx "^engsilensis, Guerin, Icon. 

 Rept. t. 20, /. 1. Scytale coronata, Guerin, Icon. Rept. t. 20, /. 2. 

 Tortrix Eryx, var, Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 17. 



Pale brown ; back with dark confluent, lozenge-shaped cross- 

 bands ; sides brown-varied. 



a. In spirits. Young. India. Presented by Dr. P. Russell. 



Padain Cootoo, Russell, Ind. Serp. t. 4. 



b, c. In spirits. Young. India. Purchased. 



d. In spirits. Adult. India. 



e. Stufi'ed. Adult. India. 



/, g. In spirits. Half grown. India, Madras. Presented by J. 

 E. Boileau, Esq. 



h. In spirits. Half grown. India. Presented by the Royal Col- 

 lege of Surgeons. 



i. In spirits. Very young. India. 



j. In spirits. Adult. Scales of the back convex, rather smooth. 

 India, Madras. Presented by J. C. Jerdon Esq. 



k. Skin of adult, in spirits. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliott, 

 Esq. 



