130 REPTILES. 



marbled. (See Dromicus angulifer and Philodryas dorsalis, na- 

 tives of the same islands.) 



a. Adult. St. Thomas. From M. Salle's Collection. 



7. Dromicus rufiventris. 



Coluber rufiventris, Mus. Berol. Dromicus rufiventris, Dum. 

 ^ Bibr. p. 668. 



Habit moderately slender. Scales smooth, in twenty-three 

 rows ; one loreal ; eight upper labials, third, fourth and fifth 

 coming into the orbit. Above brown, with irregular darker lon- 

 gitudinal streaks; a reddish-brown streak from the mvizzle 

 through the eye, along the sides of neck, soon disappearing. Belly 

 <lull yellowish, marbled with brown. 



a. Adult. W. Indies ; St. Kitt's. Presented by — Hogan, Esq. 



h. Adult. St. Kitt's. Presented by — Hogan, Esq. 



c, d. Half-grown. St. Kitt's. Presented by — Hogan, Esq. 



e-g. Half-grown. St. Kitt's. Presented by — Hogan, Esq. 



h. Adult. West Indies. 



t. Nearly half-grown. West Indies. Presented by Mrs. Mauger. 



k-n. Young : very bad state. West Indies. 



o. Young : not good state. West Indies. Old Collection - 



8. Dromicus rufodorsatus. 



Similar to D. rufiventris. Scales smooth, in nineteen rows ; 

 one loreal, eight upper labials, fourth and fifth coming into the 

 orbit (third exceptionally). Above brown, with two rows of 

 darker rounded spots, jjosteriorly confluent into cross bars ; a 

 dark temple- streak ; belly greyish, marbled with brown. 



a. Adult : male. America. From the Haslar Collection. 



b. Adult: bad state. America. 



c. Adult. America. Presented by the Zoological Society. 



d. Youns;. ? Antig-ua. From Mr. Gardiner's Collection. 



Description. — Body slender, tail moderate ; head elongate \vith 

 flat crown, narrow ; muzzle broad in front. Rostral shield much 

 broader than high, raised to the surface of head j anterior fron- 

 tals longer than broad, posterior ones moderate ; vertical broad 

 in front, with convergent outer edges and a right angle behind ; 

 occipitals moderate, rounded behind ; anterior ocular large, raised 

 on the surface of crown, but not reaching the vertical ; there is 

 accidentally a second minute one in the lower front angle of eye j 

 two (exceptionally three) posterior oculars; one loreal, two na- 

 sals, eight up})er labials, fourth and fifth coming into the orbit ; 

 in one specimen, third, fourth and fifth ; eight to ten temporals. 



