CROCODILIAMS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



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district. It is represented by only one species, which is detiued as 

 follows : 



Dorsal scales iu 19 rows; superior labials, 7; two postoculars; tail from oiMvlil'tli 

 to one-.seveuth total h'ugth. Bluish-black, with subquadrate red spots on the 

 sides; belly red, with bluish-black sjtots F. alxdura. 



FARANCIA ABACURA Holbrook. 



Farancia abacura Baikd and Gikard, Cat. N. Auier. Eept., 1853, p. 123. — Boti- 



i.ENGEK, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 291. 

 Cohiber ahacitnis Holhkook, N. Amer. Herpt., I, 1836, p. 119, jil. xxiii. 

 Homalopsis relnwardtii Schlegel, Ess. Phys. Serp. Part, descr., 1837, p. 357. 

 Hydrops reinwardtii Gi:ay, Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 67. 

 Hi/drojys abacurua Dumekil and BiBUON, Erp. Gen., pi. 65. 



HeUcops abacm-us Holbrook, N. Amer. Herpt., 2d ed., Ill, 1842, p. Ill, jA. xxvi. 

 Farancia drummondi Gray, Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 68. 

 Farancia fasciata Gray, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 74. 

 Calopiama abacurum Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. G<^n., VII, 1854, pi. 65. 



Fig. 154. 



Farancia abacura Holbrook. 



X .75. 



Vertical plate subhexagonal, elongated, sides nearly parallel, pointed 

 posteriorly. Occipitals elongated, angular, posteriorly tapering. Post- 

 froutals subaugular, entering in the orbit. Prefrontal angular, well 

 developed. Rostral much broader than high, concave beneath. ISTostril 

 in the middle of the nasal plate, visible from above. Loreal elongated, 

 horizontal, forming, together with the postfrontal, the anterior part of 

 the orbit. Eyes circular. Superciliaries subangular, elongated, well 

 developed. Two angular postorbitals, upper one largest, lower one 

 resting on the commissure between the fourth and fifth labials. One 



