SNAKES. 7a 
Lead-coloured ; dark lateral streak narrow, formed by the outer 
edge of the ventral shields; beneath gray, minutely dotted: belly 
shields, with three longitudinal black streaks: head large, elongate ; 
tail elongate, blackish, with a series of white spots on each side be- 
neath: subcaudal plates forming three narrow lines, black-edged : 
scales in 23 series: larger scales when nearly dry covered with 
small irregular blister-like convexities. Body 25, tail 6 inches. 
a. In spirits. Adult. Borneo. From the Leyden Museum, as 
“* Homolopsis Aer, Schleyel.” 
4. In spirits. Adult. India. 
H. trilineata, Gray, Zool. Misc. 66. . 
ce. In spirits. Half grown. India. 
d. In spirits. India. From Colonel Cobbs’s collection. 
4. The Two-LinEp Hypstruina. Hypsirhina bilineata, Gray, 
Zool. Misc. 66. 
Lead-coloured ; back with an indistinct pale streak on each 
side; beneath white; sides grayish white, with a black lateral 
streak formed by the dark outer edge of the ventral shields: head 
small: tail elongate, lead-coloured, with two obscure pale streaks 
above, white beneath, with three black lines formed by the edge of 
the shields: scales in 21 rows. Body 18, tail 43 inches. 
a. In spirits. Adult. China. Presented by W. Lindsay, Esq. 
b,c. In spirits. Young. Pale brown, with two pale streaks: head 
with two white streaks united over the nose; lips, side and be- 
neath white, with a narrow brown line on the edge of the abdo- 
minal shields: tail beneath white, with three narrow brown 
lines. India. 
Hypsizhina furcata, Gray, Zool. Misc. 66. 
A very large, very thick, fusiform specimen, is in the museum 
of the Zoological Society, named “ Zenopeltes concolor, No. 491.” 
5. The CutnesE Hypsiruina. Hypsirhina Chinensis, Gray, 
Zool. Misc. 66. 
Lead-coloured, with a rather broad white streak. along the 
lower part of each side, nearly two scales wide, dark lateral as wide 
as last series of scales: ventral shields lead-coloured, with a whitish 
hinder edge: scales in 23 series: tail short, compressed, whitish, 
clouded beneath. 
a. In spirits. Adult. Body 13}, tail 3 inches. China. Presented 
by John R. Reeves, Esq. 
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