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8. CORYPHODON BLUMENBACHII. 



Coluber mucosus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Fried, t. 13. f. 2, t. 23. f. 2 

 (bad) ; Boie, his, 1827, p. 536. Russell, i. t. 34, ii. t. 18. f. 2, 

 young; Lacep. Quadr. Ovip. ii. pi. 34; Latr. Rept. iv. p. 156; 

 Baud. Rept. vi. p. 355. Coluber blumenbaehii, Merr. Tent. 

 p. 119; Schleg. Ess. pi. 5. f. 7, 8. Coluber dhumna. Cantor, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, and Catal. of Malayan Rept. p. 74. Cory- 

 phodon blumenbaehii, Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 184. 



Olive : scales of the hinder part of body and of tail with black 

 edges, forming sometimes more or less regular, narrow, transverse 

 streaks. Scales of the back keeled, in seventeen rows. 



a. Adult. India. Colonel Cobbe's Collection. 



b. Adult. India. Colonel Cobbe's Collection. 



c. i^dult. India. Colonel Cobbe's Collection. 



d. Adult : bad state. India. Presented by W. Masters, Esq. 



e. Adult : discoloured. India. Purchased. 



/. Half-grown : discoloured. India. Purchased. 



g. Half- grown. India. 



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



i. Young : bad state. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, 



Esq. 

 k. Young. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 /, m. Adult. Madras. Presented by J. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 n. Adult. Madras. Presented by J. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 o-q. Adult: bad state. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, 



Esq. 

 r, s. Young. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 t. Large specimen. Calcutta. Presented by the Zoological 



Society. 

 u. Half-grown : bad state. Bengal. Presented by W. Masters, 



Esq. 

 V. Tail of a very large male. Penang. Presented by General 



Hardwicke. 

 w. Adult : in fluid : bad state. China. 

 X. Adult : bad state. China. Presented by Mr. Lindsey. 

 y. Adult : bad state. East Indies. From the Haslar Collection. 

 z. Adult. East Indies. From Mr. Argent's Collection, 

 a. Adult : bad state. East Indies. Old Collection. 

 /S. Adult : rather discoloured. East Indies. Presented by the 



College of Surgeons. 

 y, 8. Half-grown. East Indies. 

 €. Half-grown : bad state. East Indies. From the Haslar 



Collection. 

 rj. Half-grown. East Indies. 

 $. Half-grown : not good state. East Indies. 



