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REPTILES. 



o. Adult : head injured. Bengal. Presented by General Hard- 



wicke. 

 p. Adult. India. From the Elaslar Museum. 

 q. Young. India. Presented by the Zoological Society. 



3. Spilotes reticularis. 



Coluber reticularis, Cantor, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 51. 



Body compressed, rather elongate. Scales keeled, in nineteen 

 rows ; the fifth upper labial hardly reaching the hinder margin 

 of orbit ; eight upper labials ; two posterior oculars. Blackish 

 brown, behind black, with whitish cross bands, on the anterior 

 part of body less conspicuous than on the posterior, and some- 

 times forming only netted spots; belly yellowish, spotted or 

 marbled with black, sometimes uniform black ; sometimes with 

 two pale longitudinal lines on each side of back. 



There is the strongest resemblance between this species and 

 S. melanurus as to the structure of the cephalic shields, having 

 the same tendency to the same irregularities; but they differ 

 constantly in the form of the fifth upper labial, which circum- 

 stance, together with the coloration, has warned us against 

 uniting both species. Moreover S. reticularis does not appear 

 to grow to the same length as S. melanurus. 



a. Adult. Khasya. Presented by Br. J. Hooker, F.R.S. 



b. Adult. Khasya. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker, F.R.S. 



c. Adult: head injured. Khasya. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker, 



F.R.S. 



d. Adult. Sikkim; Himalaya. Presented bv Dr. J. Hooker, 



F.R.S. 



e. Half- grown. Sikkim ; Himalaya. Presented by Dr. J. 



Hooker, F.R.S. 

 /. Half-grown : head injured. Sikkim ; Himalaya. Presented 

 by Dr. J. Hooker, F.R.S. 



4. Spilotes corais. 



Coluber corais, Cuv.; Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 537; Schleg. Ess. 

 pi. 5. f. 9, 10, and Abbildg. pi. 28. f. 9-11 (skull). Spilotes 

 corais, Dum. 8f Bibr. p. 222. 



Uniform blackish ash, tail whitish. Young with darker cross 

 bands. Scales in seventeen rows, smooth. 



a. Adult. Para. From Mr. Stevens's Collection. 



b. Adult. Caripe Para. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



c. Adult. Pernambuco. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



