SNAKES. 7¥. 
hinder one entire, with a plate above it: eyes small, over the third 
labial: body compressed ; abdominal plates narrow, rounded ; tail 
short ; subcaudal plates two-rowed ; lower labial small. 
Fordonia, Gray, Zool. Misc. 67, 1842. Hydropsis, Fitz. 8. 
Rh, 25, 1843, no char. Homalopsis sp., Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 
i. The Forponta. Fordonia leucobalia, Gray, Zool. Misc. 67. 
Homalopsis leucobalia, Schlegel, 345, t. 18, f. 8,9. Muller, Verh. 
Rept.t.8. Hydropsis leucobalia, Fitz. S. BR. 25. 
Scales in 25 series, smooth, rhombic: blue-black, polished, 
with many irregular series of angular white spots; belly white. 
Inhab. Timor. 
2. The Pruain Forponia. Fordonia unicolor. 
Olive-brown, polished, nearly uniform: scales minutely brown 
punctured ; ventral shields with a rather paler hinder edge. 
a. In spirits. Borneo? Presented by Capt. Sir Edward Belcher, 
K.C.B., R.N. 
b. In spirits. Borneo. From Mr. Lowe’s collection. 
31. GERARDA. 
Head moderate, rather depressed ; rostral four-sided ; frontal 
plates 3; anterior narrow, high between the nasals, dilated above ; 
posterior moderate, close ; superciliary small; vertebral moderate ; 
occipital large, elongated behind; three anterior labial narrow, 
high; hinder broader; last largest, entire: eyes over the fourth 
plate; loreal plate, square: body subcylindrical: scales smooth, 
broad, rhombic; subcaudal plates rather broad, evenly rounded: 
tail conical; subcaudal plates two-rowed. 
1. The Gerarp. Gerarda bicolor. 
Lead-coloured, white varied: lips (except rostral plate), chin, 
lateral streak 23 scales wide, white; under part pale: scales 
rhombic, in 16 or 17 series: one small anterior and two small pos- 
terior oculars. 
a. In spirits. West Indies. From Mr. Luna’s collection. 
32. HIPISTEs. 
Head ovate, distinct, rather depressed ; rostral shield six-sided, 
rounded; frontal plates 3; anterior narrow, erect, between the 
nasals ; posterior, superciliary and other head shields small; loreal 
square: oculars 2, anterior and lower posterior rather one verging 
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