24 REPTILES. 
a. In spirits. Adult. India. Presented by Dr. Patrick Russell. 
Col. Russellii, #. W. Gray, MSS. B. M. Shaw. 
b,c. In spirits. Adult. India. 
d. In spirits. Adult. Presented by General Hardwicke. 
e. In spirits. Half grown. India. 
f,g. In spirits. Half grown and young. Ceylon. Presented by 
R. Templeton, Esq., R.E 
h. In spirits. Young. Ceylon. Presented by Capt. Gascoigne. 
Yellow-brown ; back with three rows of roundish spots, pale 
spotted on the edge, the front and hinder spots elongate, sometimes 
confluent: head black-brown, with a line over each eye, a broad 
cross-like mark on the crown and a spot before each eye; chin and 
beneath white, brown spotted. 
Daboia pulchella, Gray, Zool. Mise. 69. 
i. Stuffed. Adult. India. 
2. RussELt’s Katuxa. Daboia Russellii, Gray, Zool. Misc. 
Coluber, No. 32, Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. 37, t. 32. Vipera elegans, 
var. ? Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 588. 
Pale gray-brown, with three series of darker oblong spots ; be- 
neath white. 
Inhab. Bombay. 
Dr. Russell engraved perhaps a bad drawing of a very old spe- 
cimen of the former: he considers it Coluber Lachesis of Dr. Shaw. 
3. The Xanruran Katuxa. Daboia Xanthina. 
Pale brown; beneath paler, closely punctulated; back irregu- 
larly brown spotted, central series largest ; occiput with an oblong 
dark spot on each side; temple with an oblique brown streak, be- 
coming broader behind from the back angle of the eyes; lip with a 
small brown spot under the eyes. 
a. In spirits. Adult. Xanthus. Presented by Sir Charles Fellowes. 
b. In spirits. Young. Asia Minor. Presented by A. C. Christy, 
Esq. 
2. CLoTHo. 
Eyes convex; pupil oblong, erect: head short, broad: keel of 
scales ending in a spine: superciliary shields small, scale-like: nasal 
shield arched over the nostril and interrupted by a small shield in 
front. Africa. 
Clotho, Gray, Zool. Misc. 69, 1842. Clotho, part, Wagler. 
Vipera sp., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 588. Cerastes sp., Wagler, Syst. 
Amph. 178, 1830. Echidna sp., Merrem, Tent. 150, 1820. Wagler, 
Syst. 177, 1830, not Geoff. Vipera and Cobra sp., Lacep. Rept. 99, 
100. 
