SNAKES. 



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a. Adult. Ceylon. 



b. Adult. Ceylon. 



c. Adult. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



d. Adult : not good state. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, 



Esq. 

 e-g. Adult. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, Esq. 

 h, i. Adult. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



The specimens which come from Ceylon measure only two to 

 three feet in length ; they do not appear to grow to the same 

 length as those coming from the other parts of the East Indies. 



k-o. Adult and young. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliott, 



Esq. 

 p. Adult. Madras. Presented by J. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 q. Nearly adult. Madras. Presented by J. E. J. Boileau, Esq. 

 r. Half-grown. Siam. Presented by J. Bowring, Esq. 

 s. Adult : bad state. India. From Mr. Warwick's Collection. 

 t. Adult : injured. India. 

 u. Adult. India. 



v. Adult. India. Presented by W. C. Masters, Esq. 

 w. Adult. India. Old Collection. 

 x. Adult : not good state. India. 

 y. Adult : not good state. India. Purchased. 

 z. Half-grown. India. Presented by W. Masters, Esq. 

 a-y. Adult. India. From the Haslar Collection. 

 8. Adult. India. From Mr. Mather's Collection. 



e . Adult : not good state. India. 



£. Adult : not good state. India. Presented by Mr. Nimmo. 

 rj. Half-grown. India. Presented by Lady Harvey. 

 6. Adult : not good state. India. Presented by Mr. Bowerbank. 

 t. Young. Carthagena (?). From Paris. 



Var. Dryinus fuscus : greyish brown, marbled with purple, 

 without longitudinal stripe. 



k. Adult : has been dried. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Col- 

 lection. — Muzzle rather loug; whole length about 2£ feet. 

 X. Adult. India. 



3. Langaha, Bruguiere. 



Dryiophides with an excessively elongated muzzle; the ap- 

 pendage fleshy, covered with small scales, forming about one- 

 third of the total length of head. Scales keeled. Madagascar. 



Langaha, Bruguiere, Journ. de Phys. 1784, p. 132 ; Schneider, 

 Hist. Amph. i. p. 357 ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. iii. p. 571 ; Cuvier, 



