38 REPTILES. 



laterals ; the latter united with the loreal, and forming only one 

 shield, in contact with the second and third upper labials : as 

 this may be only accidental in the individual, I do not venture 

 to form a new genus for the species. Vertical shield elongate, 

 five-sided, with nearly parallel lateral edges and a rather obtuse 

 angle behind; occipitals rather small, pointed and divergent 

 behind ; superciliaries narrow, elongate ; anterior ocular just 

 reaching the surface of crown ; two posterior ones ; loreal none ; 

 two nasals, nostril between ; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 forming the lower edge of orbit ; one elongate temporal shield 

 in contact with both posterior oculars, three or four smaller ones 

 behind. Scales smooth, rhoraboidal, in nineteen rows; anal 

 bifid. Posterior maxillary teeth longest, not grooved, in a con- 

 tinuous row with the remainder. Above brownish olive, with 

 two narrow yellow longitudinal streaks from the occiput to the 

 tip of tail; between the streaks a row of about ninety black 

 cross bars, each formed of two spots ; on the sides a series of 

 similar black cross bars, alternate w ith the dorsal series ; each 

 of the lateral cross bars provided with two or three yellow specks ; 

 crown of head black ; vertical with two yellow spots behind ; 

 beneath uniform yellowish ; outer edges of some ventral plates 

 black, and forming a lateral series of equidistant spots. Length 

 of cleft of mouth f " ; length of the injured tad 21" ; length of 

 trunk 18"; length of the restored tail 5". 



V. CORONELLA ELEGANS. 



Lygophis elegans, Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Herpetol. p. 53. t. 6. 



Scales in fifteen rows ; anal bifid ; eight upper labials, the 

 third, fourth and fifth coming into the orbit. Above olive, with 

 a dorsal series of brown spots, forming on the neck a continuous 

 zigzag line, and on the tail a straight streak ; beneath whitish ; 

 throat minutely black-specked; on the anterior part a lateral 

 punctated line. 



a. Adult. Peru? From M. Parzudaki's Collection. 



10. CoRONELLA MULTIM ACULATA. 



Amplorhinus raultimaculatus. Smith, III. of S. Afr. pi. 57. 

 Dipsas Smithii, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 1162. 



Scales in seventeen rows ; anal entire. Brownish olive above, 

 with four series of black spots, and two more or less conspicuous 

 whitish longitudinal lines ; beneath greyish. Posterior maxillary 

 teeth longest, grooved. 



The only species of Coronella exhibiting united nasals. 



