62 REPTILES. 
Acrochordus sp., Shaw, Zool. iii. Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 425. Lacep. 
Quad. Ovip. ii. 472, t. 11, f.2. Shaw, N. Mise. t. 148. Zool. iii. 
573, t. 128. Merrem, Tent. 81. Gray, Zool. Misc. 63. 
1. The AcrocHorpE. Acrochordus Javanicus, Horst. Abh. 
Acad. Stock. 1797; vii. 306, ¢. Schlegel, Phys. Serp. ii. 428. 
Abbild. 55, t. 17, f. 12,14. Bote, Isis, 1827,511. A. Javensis, 
Daud. Rept. vii. 390. Cuvier, R. A. ii. 72. A. dubius, Shaw, 
Zool. iii. t. 29, good. 
Adult brown; young brown, with darker bands and streaks. 
a. In spirits. Adult. Uniform brown. Old collection. Described 
by Dr. Shaw. 
A. Javanicus, Shaw, Misc. t. 141. 
b,c. In spirits. Young; with darker longitudinal streaks. India. 
Presented by General Hardwicke. 
A. dubius, Shaw, MSS. Brit. Mus., in Zool. iii. t. 129. 
d. Stuffed. Adult. Java. Presented by the East India Company. 
Il. Tail conical, tapering. Belly with more or less broad band-like 
shields. Fluviatile. 
Hemiophodia, fam. Pelophis, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 1843. Homa- 
lopsis and Pseudoeryx, Fitz. N. Class. 55, 1826. Hydrophide 
pars, Boie, Isis, xx. 1827. Serpents d’eau douce pars, genus Ho- 
malopsis, Schlegel, Phys. Serp. Colubride pars, Gray, Ann. Phil. 
x. 1825, 208. 
A. Head shielded. Tail scaly beneath. Nostril in a ring of small 
scales. The abdominal shield very small, six-sided, flat, keeled 
on each side, as if formed of two scales united. Expetonina. 
14. ERPETON. 
Head moderate; crown shielded, with some small shields be- 
tween the vertical and superciliary shields, a double set of labial 
shields, and a compressed scaly beard on each side of the muzzle: 
nostrils in the middle of a series of small scales: dorsal scales 
imbricate, keeled: abdominal shield small, long, narrow: subcaudal 
shields scarcely different from the other scales. 
Erpeton, Lacep. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1801, xlvi. 169. Ann. 
Mus. ii. t=. 150. Dumeril, Z. A. 89. Latr. Rept. iv. 190. Daud. 
Rept. vii. 243. Cuv. R. A. ii. 68, ed. 2,11. Gray, Ann. Phil. x. 
1825, 209. Zool. Misc. 63, 1842. Rhinopirus, Merrem, Tent. 81, 
