SNAKES. in 



b. Head shielded, small, cylindrical, like body ; muzzle depressed, 

 rounded : no hinder frontal hone ; no intermaxillary teeth : nos- 

 trils in the middle of a shield : eyes between shields, ivithout any 

 plate on each side ; pupil round : tail very short, cylindrical, not 

 prehensile : anal spur very small, hidden. Cylindrophina. 



Angiiiformes pars, Oppell, Rept. 1811. Cylindiyines pars, 

 Latreille, Fam. Nat. 100. Ilysioidea pars, Fitz. N. Class. Rept. 

 26. ImbricatsB pars, Boie, Isis, xx. 310, 1827. Tortricina pars, 

 Muller. Cylindroplies pars, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 24, 1843. Tortrici- 

 des pars, Dum. <$• Bib. Erp. Gen. \\. 581. 



23. Cylindrophis. 



Tail compressed : nasal plates large ; frontal plates moderate : 

 eyes surrounded by tbe labial, superciliary and temporal plates, and 

 sometimes by a small posterior ocular plate. India. 



Cylindrophis, Wagler, Syst. Amph. Ilysia, Hemprich. Licht. 

 Doubl. 104. Fitz. N. Class. Rept. 54. Anilius, Oken. Scytale 

 sp., Merrem. 



* Tail triangular, truncated. 



1. The Black-backed Pamboo. Cylindrophis melanota, 

 Wagler, Syst. Amph. 195, 1830. Icon. t. 27. Dum. Sr Bib. Erp. 

 Gen. vi. 592. Tortrix melanota, Boie, MSS. Isis, 1827. Reimv. 

 Mus. Leyden. Tortrix rufa, var. Celebensis, Schlegel, Phys. Serp. iii, 

 t. 33,/. 11—17. Abbild. t. 33,/. 11—17. Cylindrophis rufa, 

 var. 1, Gray, Zool. Misc. 43. 



Black muzzle ; end of tail white ; belly black and white 

 banded ; tail longer than the head, slightly flattened on the three 

 sides, truncated at the tip. 



a. In spirits. Celebes. From the Leyden Museum. 



** Tail conical ; muzzle broad. 



2. The ScHiLAJ Paimbog. Cylindrophis rufa, Gray, Zool. 

 Misc. 43. Dum. Sj- Bib. Erp. Gen. vi. 595. Tortrix rufa, Schlegel, 

 Phys. Serp. ii. 9, t. 1, f. 1,2. Abbild. iii. 33, / 5 — 1 0. Russell, 

 In'd. Serp. ii. 62, t. 27, t. 28, /. 1. Seba, Thes. ii. t. 25, f.l.t. 7, 

 / 3, t. 20, /. 3. Scheuch. P. S. t. 629, t. 647, /.I, t. 748, /. 6. 

 Anguis rubra, Laur. Syn. 71. A. rufa, Schn. Amph. A. Scytale, 



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