380 COLTJBRIDjE. 



Genus CANTORIA, 

 Girard, Proc. Ac. Pkilad, 1857, p. 182. 



Teii or eleven teeth in each maxillary, last longest and grooved. 

 Head small, not distinct from neck; eye very small, with vertically 

 subelliptical pupil ; head-shields large ; nostril in a seniidivided 

 nasal, the cleft of which extends to the prsefrontal ; a single inter- 



Fig. 111. Head of Cantoria ciolacca. 



nasal, separating the nasals ; loreal present. Body very elongate, 

 slightly compressed ; scales smooth, in 19 rows, without apical pits ; 

 veutrals well developed, not keeled ; tail moderate ; subcaudals in 

 two rows. 



A single species. 



472. Cantoria violacea. 



Cantoria violacea, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 182 ; id. U. S. 



Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 156, pi. xi, figs. 7-10 ; Cope, Proc. Ac. 



Philad. 18(56, p. 312 ; Liitk. Tid. Meddel. 1866, p. 151. 

 Hydrodipsas elapiformis, Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1859, p. 270, pi., 



fig. 1. 



Cantoria elongata, Gi'mth. Rept. B. I. p. 277. 

 Hemiodontus elapiformis, Jan, Icon. Ophid. 28, pi. vi, fig. 2. 

 Cantoria elapiformis, Gi'mth. Zool. Rec. 1868, p. 124. 

 Cantoria dayaua, Stoliczku, J. A. S. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, p. 208, 



pi. xi, fig. 5 ; Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 178; Theob. Cat. p. 181. 



Frontal a little longer than broad, shorter than its distance from 

 the end of the snout or than the parietals ; eye between four shields, 



that Eydoux's Coluber prevostianus was described together with the Ceylonese 

 Uropeltis phllippinus as from Manilla would suggest the possibility of the former 

 having likewise been obtained from Ceylon ; however, there is no evidence of 

 this being the case, and Pegu remains the only authenticated habitat. Theobald's 

 specimens were obtained from the Bassein River. 



