(l REPTILES. 



8. Calamaria grayi. 



Scales in thirteen rows ; upper labials five ; first pair of lower 

 labials not forming a suture ; no azygos scale between the chin- 

 shields. Body cylindric, much elongate ; muzzle very short. 

 Young reddish white, with black rings ; in older age the rings 

 confluent on the back, and belly with black square bands. 



a. Adult. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



b. Young. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



Head very short, depressed, fiat above, like that of ElapS; 

 muzzle very short, rounded in front; rostral shield just reaching 

 the surface of head ; vertical moderate, six-sided ; fifth upper 

 labial forming a suture with the occipital ; two scale-like tem- 

 poral shields behind ; body and tail as in C. lumOricoidea, but 

 head much shorter. 



I). Calamaria coronella. 



Calamaria coronella, Schlegel, Essai, ii. p. 48. 



Scales in seventeen rows. Brownish above, with a dorsal 

 series of large brown spots. 

 a. Adult. Persia. Only one pair of frontals. 



The specimens described by Schlegel have only fifteen longi- 

 tudinal rows of scales. 



2. Conopsis, Gunther. 



Body and tail moderate. Only one pair of frontals ; rostral 

 shield protruding, pyramidal, slightly bent upwards ; one nasal, 

 pierced by the nostril ; loreal none, united with the frontal ; one 

 anterior, two posterior oculars ; seven upper labials. Scales 

 smooth, rounded behind, in seventeen rows; anal bifid; sub- 

 caudals two-rowed. Teeth equal, smooth. California. 



1. Conopsis nasus. 



Uniform dark olive; on the anterior part of back some small 

 black spots ; beneath paler, with black spots. 

 a. California. From Mr. Bridges' Collection. 



Description of the specimen. — Head rounded, conical, sharply 

 pointed in front, not distinct from neck ; body cylindrical, rather 



compressed; tail not distinct, stout, tapering; eye moderate, 



pupil round. Rostral shield forming a solid, protruding, four- 

 sided pyramid with rounded edges, the top of which is slightly 

 bent upwards (somewhat similar to the same shield in Rkinostoma, 



