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REPTILES. 



2. Ablabes MELAXOCEPHALUS. 



Lycodon meiauocephalus, Gray, Ind. Zool. pi. . f. 2. 



Scales in seventeen rows; upper labials nine, fourth, fifth 

 and sixth touching the eye. Above light brown, with two white 

 longitudinal streaks, beginning from the occiput, becoming in- 

 distinct towards the hinder parts of body, and interrupted by 

 quadiangular, equidistant, black spots ; crown of head and neck 

 dark brown ; beneath whitish, with a lateral punctated line. 



a-c. Adult. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



3. Ablabes collaris. 



Psammophis collaris, Gray, Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, 

 p. 390. 



Scales in seventeen rows; upper labials nine, fourth, fifth 

 and sixth touching the eye. Above olive, very minutely black- 

 speckled ; crown of head dark brown, variegated with olive ; 

 neck with a broad, dark brown, yellow-edged collar ; the yellow 

 edges crossed by a medial dark brown streak, continued as a 

 dorsal series of small, equidistant, brown spots ; beneath yellow- 

 ish, each ventral shield on the sides with a black speck. 



a, b. Adult and half-grown. Khasya. Presented by Dr. J. 

 Hooker. Dark olive, nearly brown. 



c. Adult : bad state. Nepal, Presented by B. H. Hodgson, 



Esq. 



d. Half-grown. Madras. Presented by J. E. J. Boileau, Esq. 



e. Adult. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, Esq. 

 f-i. Young. India. Presented by W. Masters, Esq. 



k, I. Young. India. 



m-p. Young. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 

 q. Adult. India. 



r. Adult. India. Presented by the College of Surgeons, 

 s. Adult : injured. India. Presented by the Zoological So- 

 ciety. 

 t-x. Half-grown. India. 



4. Ablabes punctatus. 



Coluber punctatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 376 ; Lacep. ii. p. 287 ; 

 Bonnat. Ophiol. p. 10 ; Latr. Rept. iv. p. 136 ; Daud. vii. p. 178 ; 

 Merr. Tent. p. 136 ; Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1827, 

 p. 354, and Med. Phys. Res. 1835, p. 117; Storer, Reports, 

 p. 225 ; Holbr. N. Amer. Herpet. iii. t. 18. Coluber torquatus, 

 Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 553. Homalosoma punctatum, Wagl. Syst. 

 Amph. p. 191. Spilotes punctatus. Swains. Nat. Hist. p. 364. 



