MUR^NlDJi. 91 



Nosiil teeth, \0-] I, conical ones in the outer row; S hiqi/cr ones 

 in the inner row. On the mesial line, 8. Vomerines, 1(V in one 

 row, all short, conical, the first one being the thickest and bluntest. 

 Palatines, 1 5 in the outer row, 8 in the inner row. Mandibulars, 

 ^0 in each half of the bone, 8 in the inner row, close to the sym- 

 physis, which jiossesses only an incomplete row of 4 teeth, that lean 

 against the second row. 



The low dorsal begins at the occiput. The head is short, the 

 eye of medium size, and the fore nostril-tube very short. The 

 hinder nostril is placed over the fore corner of the eye, is small 

 and oval, and has a black raised bolder. Ground-colour yellow, 

 %yith innumerable black points, and zig/ag and branching "figures 

 like hieroglyphics. On the throat, the black points form a zTc^zag 

 longitudinal stripe. Point of the tail, yellow. ° 



Total length, 15-35 in. Length of the tail, 8'26 in. 



This species resembles Sidera pantherina. 



Brazils (Paris Museum). 



104. Thyrsoidea unicolor. 



Muraenophis unicolor, Delaroche, An. du Mas. xiii., pi. 25, f. 15. 



Murffinophis Cristini, Bisso. 



Mura?na monaca, Cocco. 



Mursena unicolor, Bonap. Cat. Meth. 



Ground-colour, yellowish-brown, with, on the fore parts, innu- 

 merable black zigzag cross-bars, mostly interrupted. Borders of 

 the tins, yellow. A deep black longitudinal stripe on the thioat. 

 The species is remarkable for the size it attains. A skin in 

 the Paris Museum measures 33-46 in., whereof the tail forms 

 J(j 53 in. 



Ivica (Delaroche). Madeira (Cuv.). Madagascar (Quou and 

 Gaim.y 



S. Biserial nasals and vomerines. 



105. Thyrsoidea meleagris. 



Murajna meleagris, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 220; Gen. Zool 32- 

 liich.. Ereb. ((■ Terr. p. 93. 



Diai/n. Chestnut-brown, the whole body thickly studded with 

 small round yellow spots, having black borders, placed at prelty 

 regular distances in each locality. An irregular yellow band on the 

 end of the tail. 



Nasal teeth, stoutly subulate, biserial ; the outer row comjiosed 

 of teeth unequal in height, but none of them very tall ; the inner 

 row consisting of tallei- teeth ranged in a semicircle. Three tee ih 



