104 REPTILES. 
c. Scales keeled ; labial shields not pitted : nostrils between two 
plates. America. 
15. UNGALIA. 
Head covered with symmetrical plates: labial shields not pit- 
ted: nostrils lateral, between two plates: eyes lateral; pupil ellip- 
tical, erect: scales convex, appearing keeled: subcaudal plates 
one-rowed. 
Ungalia, Gray, Zool. Misc. 43, 1842. Tropidophis, Dum. 
Bib. Erp. Gen. vi. 488, 1846. Leionotus, Bibron, in Sagra Hist. Cuba, 
1840 (not described). Erycopsis (subgenus of Ailurophis), Fitz. 
Syst. Rept. 27, 1843 (no character). 
1. The Buack-TaiLeD Unearia. Ungalia melanura, Gray, 
Zool. Misc. 46. Boa melanura, Mus. Paris. Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 
399. Abbild. 98, ¢. 26. Tropidophis melanura, Bibron, Sagra, Cuba, 
t. 23. Erp. Gen. vi. 491. Boa pardalis, Gundlach, Wiegm. Arch. 
1840, 359. Ailurophis Erycopsis melanura, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 27. 
Olive-violet or reddish brown, with angular black spots and 
scattered smal] white spots: tail, the hinder third all black: a series 
of small scales over the labial shields. 
Inhab. Cuba. Collection of J. P. George Smith, Esq. 
2. The Parpauine Uneatia. Ungalia maculata. Leionotus 
maculatus, Bibron, Sagra, Cuba Rept. 212. t. 24, 1840. Tropido- 
phis maculatus, Dum. § Bib. Erp. Gen. vi. 494. Boa pardalis, 
part, Gundlach, Wiegm. Arch. 1840, 359. 
Gray-brown, fulvous or reddish, with many large round or oval 
black spots: tail spotted like the body: no small scales over the Ja- 
bial shields. 
a. In spirits. Cuba. Presented by P. B. Webb, Esq. 
6. In spirits. Young. Spanish Town, Jamaica. 
ec. In spirits. Very young. Back with four, belly with two, rows 
of spots on each side. Bluefields, Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse’s 
collection. 
** Pardaline Snake, Gosse.” 
