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REPTILES. 



1. Adult. Gambia. Presented by J. Mitchell, Esq. 



m, n. Half-grown. Gambia. Presented by J. Mitchell, Esq. 



o, p. Adult. Africa. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



q. Adult. Africa. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



r. Adult. Africa. From Mr. Haslar's Collection. 



s. Adult. Africa. Presented by the College of Surgeons. 



t-v. Half-grown : not good state. Africa. 



w. Half-grown : injured. Africa. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



x. Adult. Africa. 



2. Leptodeira annulata. 



^ Seba, ii. 13. 4, 17. 4, 41. 3, 52. 1, 71. 3; Scheuchz. t. 652. 

 f. 2. Coluber annulatus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Fried, t. 8. f. 2, and 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 386 ; Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 490 ; Latr. Rept. iv. 

 p. 127; Baud. Rept. vi. p. 369; Merr. Tent. p. Ill; Kuhl, 

 Beitr. zur Zool. p. 85 ; Knorr, Delic. Phys. Surin. 1767, ii. pi. 6. 

 f. 2; Daubent. Encycl. Meth. p. 591 ; Merr. Beitr. i. t. 11, and 

 iii. t. 3, 4. Coluber albofuscus, Lacep. Quadr. Ovip. ii. p. 197. 

 Coluber epidaurius, Herm. Obs. Zool. i. p. 285. Lycodon an- 

 nulatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p- 527. Dipsas annulata, Schleg. 

 Ess. ii. p. 294 ; Dum. 4" Bibr. p. 1141. Leptodeira annulata, 

 Fitzinyer, Syst. Rept. p. 27. 



Anal bifid. Scales in twenty-one or twenty-three (by excep- 

 tion in nineteen) rows. Light brown, with a dorsal series of 

 large brown spots, sometimes all, sometimes only a part con- 

 fluent into a zigzag band. 



Most of the specimens coming from Central America have 

 the scales disposed in twenty-three longitudinal rows, and are 

 provided with shorter tails. 



a. Many specimens. Mexico. From Hugo Finch's Collection. 



b-d. Adult : injured. Mexico. From Mr. Warwick's Collection. 



e. Adult. Mexico. From M. Salle's Collection. 



/. Adult : rather discoloured. Mexico. From M. Salle's Col- 

 lection. 



y. Many specimens : not in good state. Mexico. From Mr. 

 Warwick's Collection. 



h. Half-grown : injured. Mexico. From Mr. Warwick's Col- 

 lection. 



i. Half-grown. Mexico. From Hugo Finck's Collection. 



k, I. Half-grown : bad state. Mexico. 



m. Young. Mexico. 



n. Half-grown. Guayaquil. 



o. Adult. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's Collection. 



p. Adult. America. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



