80 REPTILES. 
***** Head moderate, depressed: frontal one pair, small, lateral ; 
rostral high, erect, between nasal and frontals, angular. 
36. Ficim1a. 
Head moderate, rather depressed; crown shielded; rostral 
shield large, produced behind to the vertebral shield between the 
frontal ones ; frontals one pair, small, far apart ; lateral subtrigonal, 
occupying the place of a loreal shield ; superciliary small, triangular ; 
vertebral and occipital large; nasal triangular, over front labial; 
labial shields entire; nostril rather lateral, near anterior, with a 
distinct posterior groove; chin shields four pairs: eyes convex, 
small; pupil round: body subcylindrical; scales smooth, polished, 
rhombic, with the angle rounded; vertebral shield broad, rounded : 
tail tapering: subcaudal plates two-rowed. 
In one of the specimens the rostral and first upper labial shield 
are united into one shield, on both sides. 
1. The Ficrmta. Ficimia olivacea. 
Blackish olive: lips, chin and beneath pale yellowish. 
a. In fluid. Nasal united with the first upper labial shields on each 
side. Mexico. From Mr. Hugo Finck’s collection. 
b. In fluid. Nasal separate from the first upper labial shield. 
Mexico. From Mr. Hugo Finck’s collection. 
37. PRosyMNA. 
Head indistinct; forehead rounded ; rostral broad, rather low, 
keeled in front, rounder above: frontals 2, large, four-sided, trans- 
verse, band-like, similar, hinder broadest; vertebral large, trigonal ; 
occipital band-like, oblique: nasal plate sublateral, rather large 
between upper edge of rostral and outer edge of front frontals: lo- 
real moderate: one anterior and one or two posterior oculars: labial 
shields few, high and broad; first smaller: eyes large, over the su- 
ture between second and third labial shield : superciliary triangular. 
Calamaria sp., Reinhardt, K. Dansk. Ved. Sel. x. 1843, 238. 
1. The Prosymna. Prosymna meleagris. Calamaria melea- 
oris, Reinh. K. Dansk. Sels. x. 1843, 238, t. 1, f. 4, 6, head. 
Bluish black; each scale with a subapical pale spot; beneath 
whitish. 
Inhab. Guinea. Mus. Copenhagen. 
