68 REPTILES. 
scales: rostral square, convex: anterior (5-5) labial occupying the 
front of the muzzle, very narrow, high; the hinder small, short, 
with two or three rows of scales above them: lower labial similar, 
but the hinder front one rather broader; the hinder one small, 
short, square: chin shields one pair, very large: body fusiform ; 
seales not keeled, apparently smooth, but very minutely longitudi- 
nally striated: tail short, conical, tapering; subeaudal plate two- 
rowed. 
1. The Puytotopsis. Phytolopsis punctata. 
Greenish olive, with a yellow dot in the centre of many of the 
scales, forming together indistinct cross-bands: lips and lower part 
of the sides (1% series of scales high) and under-side yellow. 
a. In spirits. India. From Mr. Warwick’s collection. 
+t The hinder labial large, like the others ; scales keeled. 
20. URranops. 
Head short, broad; cruwn shielded; occipital shields mode- 
rate: frontals 3, small; anterior triangular: nostrils sublateral, on 
upper edge of single shield: loreai 1, small: one high anterior and 
two square posterior oculars: labial moderate; the fourth larger, 
under the eye, and forming the edge of the orbit ; the hinder larger, 
entire: eyes moderate, sublateral: scales large, truncated, very 
shortly keeled and deeply striated. 
Uranops, Fitz. S. R. 25, 1843, not described. Dum. § Bid. 
Erp. Gen, 6, ined. Homalopsis sp., Bote, Schlegel. 
i. The Uranors. Uranops angulatus, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 25, 
1843. Helicops angulatus, Wagler, Syst. Amph.171. Col. angu- 
latus, Linn. Mus. Adolph. i. 23, t. 15, f. 1. Merrem, Beytr. ii. 32, 
t.6. Homalopsis angulata, Bote, sts, xx. 551. Schlegel, Phys. 
Serp. 351, ¢. 13, f. 24, 25. | Natrix aspera, Wagler, Serp. Braz. 
é.13. Col. Surinamensis, Shaw, Zool. iii. 460, from Scheuch. Ph. 
Sacr. t. 630, B. t. 653, f. 3, t. 737, f. 3. Seba, ii. t. 24, f. 2, t. 59, 
f- 2. 
Dark olive, with darker rhombic cross-bands ; hinder part of 
upper lip, lower lip, lower part of sides and beneath white; scales 
large, very strongly and sharply keeled, truncated at the tip; head 
broad; eyes small; one large and two moderate posterior oculars ; 
