66 REPTILES 
b. Crown shielded ; occipital shield moderate. 
* Head distinct, depressed : frontal shields 4; anterior 2, very smail, 
triangular. 
17. FERANIA. 
Head subcordate, dilated behind; eyes large: anterior frontal 
two pairs, transverse; hinder upper labial divided: eye over the 
fourth labial: body compressed ; scales smooth, lozenge-shaped, in 
29 longitudinal rows: back keeled ; belly narrow, very convex; tail 
conical. 
Ferania, Gray, Zool. Misc. 67, 1842. Phytomorphus, Fitz. 
S. R. 25, 1843, no char. Homalopsis sp., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 
349. Awart., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 349. 
1. The Ferania. Ferania Sieboldii, Gray, Zool. Misc. 67. 
Homalopsis Sieboldii, Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 349, t. 13, f. 4, 5. 
Seba, ii. t. 46, f. 2. Phytomorphus Sieboldii, Fitz. S. R. 25. 
Gray-brown, irregularly cross-banded, and a pale dorsal streak ; 
crown with two diverging brown streaks, and a central triangular 
spot behind. 
Inhabits Bengal. Mus. Leyden. 
** Head distinct, depressed : frontals 3; anterior triangular, trans- 
verse, smal; rostral rounded. 
+ The fourth and fifth hinder upper labial shields small, with stmi- 
lar shields over them. 
18. Homatopsis. 
Head dilated behind, swollen on the sides ; crown and face 
shielded ; anterior frontal (sometimes divided into two) triangular ; 
vertebral and superciliary moderate ; occipitals large; loreal elon- 
gate (or two short): the labial shields behind the eye, sixth to ninth 
divided ; anterior ones narrow, high: one anterior large and two 
posterior oculars: eyes moderate: body thick, fusiform: scales 
strongly keeled, longitudinally striated: tail elongate. 
Homalopsis, Kuhl. Isis, 1826, 213. Bote, Isis, 1827, 521. 
Gray, Zool. Misc. 64, 1842. Fitz. S. R. 25. Homalopsis sp., 
Wagler, Syst. Amph. 169. 
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