156 REPTILES. 



Scales smooth. Above grey with four, beneath white with 

 three longitudinal blue (in spirits blackish-ash) bands. 



a. Adult. Cayenne. 



2. Dryiophis acuminata. 



Coluber acuminatus, Wied, Ahhildg. Lief. 14. t. 1, and Beitr. 

 p. 322. Dryinus seneus, Wagl. Serp. Bras. t. 3 ; Boie, Isis, 

 1827, p. 546. Dryinus auratus, Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. pi. 12. 

 Dryiophis seneus, Cuv. Regne Anim. Oxybelis seneus, Wagl. 

 Syst. Amph. p. 159 ; Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 819. Dryiophis aurata, 

 Schleg. Ess. pi. 10. f. 16-18. 



Scales smooth ; loreal shield none. Light brown, iridescent, 

 punctulated with black. 



a. Adult : injured. Brazil. 



b. Adult. Brazil ? Presented by T. Bell, Esq. 



c. Adult : greatly injured. Maracaibo. From Mr. Lowe's 



Collection. 



d. e. xAdult. Para. Presented by R. Graham, Esq. 

 /. Adult : injured. Honduras. 



g. Adult. Honduras. 



h. Adult. Carthagena. 



i. Adult. Carthagena. 



k. Adult. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



I. Half-grown. Mexico. 



m. Adult : head injui-ed. West Indies? From Mr. Scrivener's 



Collection. 

 n. Half-grown : bad state. America. 

 0. Adult : discoloured. America. Presented by the College of 



Surgeons. 



3. Dryiophis kirtlandii. 



Leptophis kirtlandii, HaZZow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1844, p. 62, 

 and 1854, p. 100. Oxybelis lecomtei, Dum. Sf- Bibr. vii. p. 821. 

 Oxybelis kirtlandii. Hallow. I. c. 185/, p. 59. Oxybelis violacea, 

 Fischer, Abhdlg. aus dem Gebiete der Naturw. Hambg. 1856, p. 91 

 (founded upon a specimen with two loreals, and forming not even 

 a variety, see spec./) : the lateral shields of head in Dryiophis 

 are very often found separated into two or three, or two separate 

 shields are united. As to the coloration, Fischer does not appear 

 to have understood the " vert-bronze'^ in Dumeril's description. 

 All our specimens exhibit the same brownish ground-colour, 

 similar to that of D. acuminata). 



Scales on the back keeled ; rostral shield evidently produced 

 backwards ; generally two loreals ; eight upper labials, the fourth 



