134 reptiles. 



14. Dromicus lineatus. 



Seba, ii. 1.9, ii. 2. 4, ii. 12. 3, ii. 42. 5; Scheuchz.iv. 715.2. 

 Coluber lineatus, L. Mus. Ad. Fried, t. 12. f. 1, t. 20. f. 1 ; Shaw, 

 Gen. Zool, iii. p. 529 ; Merr. Tent. p. 112; Daub. Quadr. Ovip. 

 Serp. p. 668 ; Lacep. Hist. Nat. Serp. ii. p. 215 ; Latr. Rept. 

 iv. p. 151 ; Daud. Rept. vii. p. 25. Coronella lineata, Boie, Isis, 

 1827, p. 539. Lygophis lineatus, Fitzinger, Syst. Rept. p. 26. 

 Ilerpetodryas lineatus, Schleg. Ess. ii. 191. Dromicus lineatus, 

 Dum. 4' Bibr. vii. p. 655. 



Habit slender. Scales smooth, in nineteen rows. Rostral 

 slightly raised above the surface of snout. Brownish grey, with 

 a brown, black-edged dorsal band from the snout to the end of 

 tail ; on each side a black line from the nostril through the eye 

 to the end of tail. 



a. Adult female. Para. Presented by R. Graham, Esq. 



b. Many specimens, in good state. Demerara. From Mr. 



Snellgrove's Collection. 



c. Adult : tail injured. Berbice. 



d. e. Bad state. Guayaquil. 

 /. Adult. Brazil. 



ff. Adult. West Indies. 



h. Adult. West Indies. Presented by Miss Saul. 



i. Adult : bad state. East Indies. Presented by Dr. Russell. 



k, I. Adult. Hayti. Presented by the Zoological Society. 



m. Adult. America. From the Haslar Collection. 



n. Adult: rather discolom'ed. America. From the Berlin 



Museum, 

 o. Adult : dried. America. Presented by J. C. Taunton, Esq. 

 p. Adult : head injured. America. 



q. Adult. ? Presented by Sir Charles Lyell. 



r, s. Adult and half- grown. America. 

 t. Adult : bad state. America. 



Fam. VI. PSAMMOPHIDiE. 



Body and tail elongate or stout, rounded ; head short or narrow, 

 with a deep groove before the eye ; eye moderate, with round or 

 elliptical pupil ; shields of head regular, posterior frontal round- 

 ed or angular behind ; vertical narrow, superciliary prominent ; 

 loreal never wanting ; one anterior, two posterior oculars. Scales 

 never keeled, in fifteen to nineteen rows; subcaudals two-rowed. 

 Posterior maxillary teeth grooved, generally fourth or fifth longer 

 than the other ones. 



Psammophis, Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 200. Psammophis, Ccelopeltis, 

 Du7h. ^ Bibr. 



