74 REPTILES. 
6. Brennetr’s Hypstruina. Hypsirhina Bennettii, Gray, 
Zool. Mise. 67. 
Above blackish gray, with a broad and three narrow black 
streaks on the nape; back with three series of irregular blackish 
spots; white side streak and three scales towards dark streak nar- 
row, margined; beneath white; front and side edge of abdominal 
and subeaudal shields black, varied with a spot in the centre of the 
front margin of the former: scales in 20 rows: tail compressed 
(injured). 
a. In spirits. China. With a large vesicular cavity formed by the 
skin on the right side of the neck, which appears to communi- 
cate with the lungs. 
b. In fluid. China. Presented by J. 8S. Bowerbank, Esq. 
26. FaRANCIA. 
Head distinct, rather depressed: frontals 3 ; anterior triangular, 
transverse ; posterior 2, broad, bent down on the sides: vertebral 
plates broad, six-sided; superciliary narrow in front; occipitals 
elongate; nostrils sublateral, small, in the middle of a four-sided 
plate, with a line to the lower edge; one oblong four-sided anterior, 
two posterior oculars, the lower smallest: eyes over the suture of 
the third and fourth labial; the upper labial entire; the hinder 
large; the seventh largest and highest: body fusiform; scales 
rhombic, in 19 or 21 series, smooth: ventral shields rather narrow, 
rounded: tail conical; subcaudal plates two-rowed. 
Farancia, Gray, Zool. Mise. 68, 1842. Hydrops sp., Wagler, 
Syst. 
1. The Wampum Snake. Farancia fasciata. | Hydrops 
Reinwardtii, Gray, Zool. Misc..67, 1842. Homalopsis Reinwardtii, 
Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 357. Helicops abacurus, Holbrook, N. Amer. 
Erp. iii. 111, ¢. 26, 1842. Hydrops abacure, Dum. § Bib. Erp. 
Gen. t. 65. Wampum Snake, Catesby, Carol. t. 58. Vampun, 
Lacep. Quad. Ovip. ii. 279, from Cat. Coluber fasciatus, Shaw, 
Nat. Mise. viii. t. 266. Zool. iii. 463. Farancia Drummondi, 
Gray, Zool. Misc. 68. 
Reddish brown, shining; beneath yéllowish ; sides and beneath 
with large square yellow and brown spots; middle of belly brown ; 
tail veins short; lips and throat dark-spotted. 
a—c. In spirits. Adult. New Orleans. From Mr. Sale’s'collec- 
tion. 
