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e. Half-grown : not good state. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's 



Collection. 

 /. Half-grown. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 g. Adult. Sine patria. Presented by the Zoological Society. 



4. Oligodon subpunctatus. 



Oligodon subpunctatura, Dwm. <^ Bihr. p. 58. 



Belly whitish, with round, irregularly disposed, black specks. 



East Indies. 



5. Oligodon dorsalis. 



Elaps dorsalis, Gray, Ind. Zool. pi. . f. 1. 



Belly black, with white spots ; above reddish white, with a 

 pure white dorsal streak from the occiput to the tip of tail, bor- 

 dered with equidistant small brown spots ; on each side a brown 

 longitudinal streak, indistinct towards the tail. 



a. Adult. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



Shields of head as in the other Oligodon. Scales in fifteen 

 rows. The mouth of the specimen (original specimen of Dr. 

 Gray's figure), and otherwise well preserved, is not in such a 

 condition as to admit an accurate description of the dentition. 

 I was not able to find any traces of teeth on the palatine bone. 

 Head with the general coloration of Oligodon and Simotes ; the 

 dorsal streak interrupted on the tail by three equidistant large 

 black spots ; tail beneath uniform white. 



Fam. II. CORONELLID^. 



Body moderate, rounded, with flat belly and broad back, never 

 of large size. Tail rather short, not distinct from trunk, taper- 

 ing. Head rather depressed, generally with short rounded muz- 

 zle. Eye moderate. Shields of head regular (in one species 

 anomalous), generally one loreal, two nasals (sometimes united) ; 

 never more than two anterior and three posterior oculars, gene- 

 rally two posterior ones. Scales moderate, smooth (in one 

 genus partially granulated), not much imbricate, equal, almost 

 in fifteen to nineteen rows. Ventral plates without keels. Sub- 

 caudals two-rowed. Anterior teeth always shortest ; no longer 

 tooth in the middle of the series. 



Coronella, Schlegel, Ess. ii. p. 50. 



