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coloration, Schlegel mentions (Essai, ii. p. 1 79) young individuals 

 provided with whitish cross bands ; and the imperfect condition 

 of the only specimen, upon which the species was founded 

 by the French herpetologists, led them to believe that it was 

 uniform green-coloured. 



2. Herpetodryas carinatus. 



Coluber carinatus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Fried, p. 384. Cheronius 

 carinatus, Fitz. Neue Classif. p. 60. Tyria quadricarinata, Fitz. 

 Neue Classif. p. 6'9. Herpetodryas carinatus, H. bicarinatus, H. 

 quadricarinatus, and H. sexcarinatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 548. 

 Coluber bicarinatus, Wied, Beitr. p. 284, and Abbildg. viii. t. 2. 

 Coluber pyrrhopogon, Wied, Beitr. p. 291, and Abbildg. ix. t. 3. 

 Natrix bicarinata and N. sexcarinata, Wagl. Serp. Bras. t. 7, & 

 t. 6. f. 1. Natrix cinnamomea, Wagl. Icones ; Wagl.Naturl. Syst. 

 der Amph. p. 180; Schleg. Ess. t. /. f. 5-7, and Abbildg. t. 44. 



f. 10-12 (skull) ; Bum. 8( Bibr. vii. p. 207. 



Scales in ten or twelve rows, some of which are keeled. 



a. Adult. Brazil. Presented by Lord Stuart. 



b. Adult : injured. Brazil. 



c. Half-grown. Brazil. Presented by Lord Stuart. 



d. Adult: injured. Demerara. From Mr. Snellgrove's Collection. 



e. Half-grown : injured. Para. Presented by R. Graham, Esq. 

 /. Adult. Berbice. Presented by Lady Essex. 



g. Adult : injured. Trinidad. 



h, i. Adult. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



k. Adult. America. Presented by Mr. Tennant. 



I. Adult.. America. From Mr. Bartlett's Collection. 



m. Adult : bad state. America. Old Collection. 



n. Adult. America. Presented by Mr. Tennant. 



o. Adult male : bleached. America. Old Collection. 



p. Young : injured. America. — Anterior part of back with a 



yellow vertebral line ; second and third pair of subcaudals 



united. 



3. Herpetodryas boddaertii. 



Coluber boddaertii, Seetzen in Meyer's Archiv, ii. p. 59 ; Merr. 

 Tent. p. 110. Coronella boddaertii, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 539. 

 Herpetodryas boddaertii, Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 185 ; Dum. fy Bibr. 

 p. 210. 



Upper labials nine, the fourth, fifth and sixth coming into 

 the orbit; two posterior oculars, one ante-ocular reaching the 

 vertical. Scales smooth, in seventeen rows ; habit moderately 



