CALAMARIDA. yA | 
_ Africa and Australia furnish no varieties which have as 
yet been classified. 
In South America there are several varieties. 
| FirtH GENus—CALAMARIDA. (Dwarf Snakes.) 
_ Ventral shields distinct; two occipitals, tail tapering. 
Six species, comprising twelve varieties. 
Several varieties are found in India, and many more in 
South America, but the following are such species as have 
been already classified, viz.: 
No. 1. Calamaridee Calamarea. 5 varieties. 
2. * macrocalamus. 1 variety. 
3. i oxycalamus. baer 
4. * geophis. | 
: 5. i aspidura. 3 varieties. 
6. = hoplocercus. 1 variety. 
Dr. Russell describes a variety found in East India, which 
is also mentioned by Seba, viz.: 
Abdominal scuta 151, subeaudal squame, 938 = 244. Length 1387’, tail 
alone 4’’._ Called ‘‘ Dooblee.’? Head a little broader than the neck, ob- 
long-ovate, compressed, 10 lamin; mouth large, no fangs, marginal row 
of teeth in upper jaw; eyes large; nostrils small, close; trunk round; 
- tail very tapering, slender, and terminates in a long sharp point. Scales 
: on the back ovate, carinate, on the other part smooth ; color of head light 
_ brown, trunk freckled with dusky yellow spots; scuta yellowish-white ; 
- most of them with black margins. 
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_ Another variety described by Russell is called, in Tranque- 
bar, Neer Pamboo; in Calcutta, Dooblee. 
| Abdominal scuta 146, subcaudal squame, 82 = 228. Length 1’ 237’, tail 
33/7, Color dusky lead, with numerous black dots on back and sides ; 
- abdomen, and under part of tail white. 
A third variety, called in Tranquebar, Neer Pamboo. | 
