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e,f. Inspirits. Very young. Brazil. Presented by Sir James 
Me’Grigor. 
g. In spirits. Half grown. Brazil. 
h. In spirits. Adult. Tropical America. 
i. Stuffed. Adult. Tropical America, From Mr. Rich’s collec- 
uion. 
j- Skeleton of 7. 
k. Stuffed. Adult. Tropical America. 
14. CurtaBorHrus, Dum. & Bib. 
Crown scaly, with the two front thirds covered with shields: 
two internasal, two frontonasal, two prefrontal, two supra-ocular, 
one frontal, four parietal, one phrenal, two preocular and three or 
four post-ocular shields: lip shields flat, not pitted: nostrils between 
three plates, one internasal and two nasal : eyes lateral ; pupil ellip- 
tical, erect: scales of the body smooth: subcaudal shield one-rowed. 
Head shield like Liasis. 
Chilabothrus, Dum. §& Bib. Erp. Gen. vi. 562, 1844. Cen- 
ehris, P. Browne, Jam. ii. 461, 1754, not Daudin. 
Dr. Browne first noticed the spurs of this family: he says the 
negroes eat this species, and use the fat as a resolutive. 
1. The YEttow Snake. Chilabothrus inornatus, Dum. & Bib. 
Erp. Gen. vi. 563. Boa inornata, Reinh. Beskriv. Slang. 1843, 21, 
t. 1, f. 21,23. Yellow Snake, Cenchris 1, P. Browne, Hist. Jam. 
461. 
Head and front part of the body olive; temple with a narrow 
black streak: back with small, scattered, black, oblique cross lines ; 
hinder part of the body black, with olive spots. 
a. In spirits. Skin. West Indies, Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse’s 
collection. 
b. In fluid; bad state. Jamaica. Presented by Robt. Heward, 
Esq. 
ed. Stuifed. Adult, Jamaica. Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 
e. In spirits. Very young; perhaps bleached, much compressed. 
Pale brown, with only two or three very small black spots and 
no eye-streak. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse’s collection. 
