SNAKES. 67 
* Hye surrounded with small scales ; loreal 1. 
1. The Homatopsis. Homalopsis buccata, Schlegel, Phys. 
Serp. 337, t. 13, f. 1. Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. t. 33. Col. subalbidus, 
Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1103, from Seba, ii. ¢. 23, f.3; and Merrem, 
Beytr. t. 10, from Seba, Thes. ii. t. 12, f. 1, t. 13, f. 1. Scheuchz. 
Phy. Sacra. t. 660, f.1. Col. buccatus, Lin. Mus. Ad. t. 19, f. 3. 
Col. viperinus, Shaw, Zool. iii. 465. Col. horridus, Daud. Rept. 
vil. 71 = Seba, ii. t. 12, f. 1. Echidna semifasciata, Merrem, Tent. 
150. Vipera buccata, Daud. Rept. vi. 220, viii. 395. Col. moni- 
lis, Linn. S. N. i. 381. Demicollier, Lacep. Quad. Ovip. ii. 173, 
t. 8, f. 2. Homalopsis monilis, Bote, Isis, xx. 566. Fitz. S. R. 25. 
Brown; lips and beneath pale whitish; back with narrow 
cross-bands ; belly with a series of brown spots on each side; head 
pale brown, marked with a triangular spot on nose, a longitudinal 
streak on occiput, and a broad streak, including the eye, on each 
temple. 
a. In spirits. Adult. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 
b—d. In spirits. India. Bengal. Presented by General Hard- 
wicke. 
e. In spirits. Adult. India. 
f. In spirits. Young. Batavia. 
** Hye on the top of the upper labial shields ; loreal 2. 
2. Harpwicke’s Homacopsis. Homalopsis Hardwickii, Gray, 
Zool. Mise. 65. 
Olive, with black-edged, pale, narrow, often interrupted cross- 
bands: head pale, with an anterior triangular spot, and a broad 
streak up the side of the face enclosing the eyes: chin and beneath 
yellow: sides black-dotted: the sixteen or seventeen hinder scales 
of the lower series keeled, and marked with a brown ring near their 
tip on the front half of the disk, and the three scales on each side 
of the vent with a similar transverse ridge: tail elongate, slender. 
a. In spirits. Adult. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 
19. PHYTOLOPsIs. 
Head moderate, rather depressed; crown shielded; lips swol- 
len: frontals 3; anterior very small, rhombic; posterior small; 
loreal as large as posterior frontal ; vertebral narrow, elongate; su- 
perciliary narrow ; occipital plate large: temple covered with smooth 
