206 REPTILES. 



a, b. Adult and young. India. Presented by General Hard- 



wicke. 

 c, d. Adult and half-grown. India. 



The longer teeth of both jaws in some distance from the others. 



11- Odontomus, Dum. Sf Bibr. 



Body very slender and compressed ; belly angularly bent on the 

 sides ; tail elongate ; head short, depressed ; eyes large, pupil 

 erect. Shields of crown regular : posterior frontals smaller than 

 in other hycodontidcB, vertical elongate ; one nasal, one long, 

 narrow loreal, coming into the orbit ; one anterior ocular, situated 

 above the loreal ; two posterior oculars. Scales smooth, rhom- 

 boid, rather short, in thirteen to fifteen rows, those of the back 

 equal ; subcaudals two-rowed. Anterior palatine teeth longest, 

 those of the jaws not elongate ; anterior ones of the upper jaw 

 compressed. India. 



Odontomus, Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 450. Lycodon, sp,, Boie, 

 Schlegel. Hurriah, sp., Coluber, sp., Merr., Baud. 



1. Odontomus nympha. 



Russell. Ind. Serp. ii. t. 36, 37. Coluber nympha, Daud. Kept. 

 vi. p. 244. Hurriah nympha, Merr. Tent. p. .93. Lycodon 

 nympha, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 522 ; Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 120. 

 Odontomus nympha, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 450. 



Scales in thirteen rows. Light brown, with a dorsal series of 

 large round spots. 



a, b. Adult. India. Presented by Dr. Russell. 



12. Ophites, Wagler. 



Lycodon with keeled scales (in seventeen rows) ; subcaudal 

 plates two-rowed ; two nasal shields ; either one long loreal, 

 replacing an ante-ocular, or one small loreal and one ante-ocular ; 

 two posterior oculars. Habit rather elongate. East Indies. 



Ophites, Wagl. Syst. der Amph. p. 186. Sphecodes et Ophites, 

 Dum. 8f Bibr. vii. pp. 394 & 397- Lycodon, sp., Boie, Schleg. 

 Coluber, sp., Natrix, sp., Shaw, Merrem. 



1. Ophites subcinctus. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. t. 41. Coluber platurinus, Shaw, Zool. 

 iii. p. 468. Lycodon subcinctus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 55J ; Schleg. 



