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REPTILES. 



side of head ; one posterior ocular ; eight upper labials, the fifth 

 and sixth forming the lower edge of orbit ; one single nasal, 

 pierced by the nostril behind; four to five temporal shields. 

 Scales in fifteen rows. Coloration as above described. Length 

 of head |" ; length of tail 5-1" ; total length 2'. 



5. Dryiophis fulgida. 



Catesby, Carol, t. 47- Natrix flagelliformis, Laurenti, Syn. 

 p. 79. Coluber mycterizans, Shaw, Gen. Zool. iii. p. 546. Coluber 

 fulgidus, Baud. Hist. Rept. vi. p. 532. t. 80, not good. Dryiophis 

 fulgidus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 546 ; Wag!. Icon.es, t. 10, and Nat. 

 Syst. Amph. p. 184. Dryiophis catesbyi, Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 252, 

 and Abbildg. t. 14. f. 3-6 ; Fitzinger, Syst. Rept. p. 27- Oxybelis 

 fulgidus, Hum. fy Bibr. vii. p. 817. 



Scales of the back keeled. Above uniform green (in spirits 

 blue), belly paler; a yellow (white) lateral line at the edges of 

 the abdomen. Upper labials nine, the fourth, fifth and sixth 

 touching the eye (three lower orbitals) ; loreal none. 



a. Adult. Para. Presented by R. Graham, Esq. 



b. Adult. Para. From Mr. S. Stevens's Collection. 



c. Adult : injured. S. America. From Mr. Mather's Collection. 



d. Adult : injured. America. 



e. Adult : bleached. America. Old Collection. 



6. Dryiophis fronticincta. 



Scales of the back keeled ; upper labials seven or eight, gene- 

 rally only one touching the eye (one lower orbital) ; anterior 

 frontals entirely surrounded in front by the nasals, being in direct 

 contact one with the other ; two loreals. Above uniform green 

 (in spirits blue) ; belly paler with a whitish lateral line. 



a-c. West Indies. From Mr. Luna's Collection. 



Head moderate ; muzzle rather broad, suddenly pointed, mode- 

 rately elongate. Rostral shield oblique, flat, just reaching the 

 surface of head, its outline elliptical ; nasal single, much elon- 

 gated, behind pointed and pierced by the nostril, in the middle 

 curved, in front broad, and in direct contact with that of the 

 other side, so as to separate the rostral from the anterior frontals, 

 forming a sort of frontlet (fronticincta). Anterior frontals rect- 

 angular, triangular, forming together an equilateral triangle ; 

 lateral sides of vertical shield very concave, superciliary subsphe- 

 roidal ; from the eye to the nostril a very dee]) canaliculated 

 groove. Two loreals; seven or eight upper labials ; some of the 

 anteriors are always horizontally divided into two: in one specimen 



