COLUBRTD-i:. 169 



a. Ad. (Y. 100; C. 20). Siam. Sir R. Schomburgk 



[P.]. 



b. Ad. (V. 100 ; C. 20). Siam. 



c. Ad. (V. 178 ; C. 31). Singapore. Dr. Dennys [P.]. 



d. Yg., bad state. Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



e-/. Ad. & hgr. (V. 176, Nias. Ilr. Sundennann [C.]. 



170 ; C. 20, 29). 



(/. Ad. (V. 184 ; C. 31). Borneo. H. Low, Esq. [P.]. 



L Ad. (V. 181 ; C. 28). Borneo. Sir J. Brooke [P.J. 



i, k. Ad. & hgr. (V. 191, Celebes. 



KU); C. 30,28). 



/. Yg. (V. 173 ; C. 30). ? Haslar Hospital. 



«i. Ad., skel. ? Lieut. Bevan [P.]. 



n. Skill]. Java. 



Fam. 7. COLUBRID^. - 



Hydri, Pseudoviperse, Colubriui, Oppel, Ordn. Rept. p. 40, 1811. 

 Colubroidea, Bungaroidea, Viperoidea, part., Fitzinger, Neue Claasif. 



liept. p. 11, 1820. 

 Macrostomata, part., (Oligodonta, Isodouta, part., lleterodonta, Am- 



pbibola, Antiocbalina, part., IlolocbaUua, part.), J! M'dller, Zeitschr. 



f. Physiol, iv. p. 270, 1831. 

 Hydridie, part., Colubridae, part., Gray, Cat. Sn. p. 2, 1849. 

 Aglyphodontes, part., Opisthoglyphes, Proteroglypbes, Dumeril, 



3Iem. Ac. Sc. xxiii. p. 419, 1853 ; Dumdril ^- Bibron, Eiy. Gen. 



vii. 1854. 

 Asinea, part. (Glypbodonta, Colubrina, Calamarina, Acrocbordina), 



Stannius, Zoot. Amph. p. 5, 1856. 

 Colubrinaj, part., Gimtlier, Cat. Col. Sn. p. 1, 1858. 

 Asinea, part., Proteroglypba, Cope, Proc. Ac. Phihd. 1864, p. 230. 

 CoUibriformes, part., Colubriformes venenosi, Gilnther, Rept. Brit. 



Ind. pp. 168 & 337, 1864. 

 Asinea, part. (Acrocbordidse, Notbopidae, Colubrida}, part., Acon- 



tiopbid*), Proteroglypba, Co/je, Proc. Amcr. P/iilos. Soc. xxiii. 



p. 479, 1886. 

 Colubridie, Boulenger, Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 234, 1890. 



Facial bones movable ; prtTefroiital not in contact with nasal ; 

 transpalatine present ; pterygoid extending to mandible or quad- 

 rate ; supratemporal present, attached scale-like to the skull and 

 suspending quadrate; maxillary horizontal, not movable per- 

 pendicularly to the transpalatine. Mandible without coronoid 

 bone. Both jaws toothed. 



Divided into three parallel series : — 



A. Agltpha. — All the teeth solid, not grooved. 



B. Opistuoglxpha. — One or more of the posterior maxiUary teeth 



grooved. ]]]. 



C. PROTEROGLYPnA. — Antcrior maxillary teeth grooved or " per- 



forated." ||-[ ', (^ ^ 



