20G REPTILES. 



a, b. Adult and young. India. Presented by General Hard- 



wicke. 

 c, d. Adult and half-grown. India. 



The longer teeth of both jaws in some distance from the others. 



11. Odontomus, Dum. fy Bibr. 



13ody very slender and compressed ; belly angularly bent on the 

 sides ; tail elongate ; head short, depressed ; eyes large, pupil 

 erect. Shields of crown regular : posterior frontals smaller than 

 in other Lycodontidce, vertical elongate ; one nasal, one long, 

 narrow loreal, coming into the orbit ; one anterior ocular, situated 

 above the loreal ; two posterior oculars. Scales smooth, rhom- 

 boid, rather short, in thirteen to fifteen rows, those of the back 

 equal ; subcaudals two-rowed. Anterior palatine teeth longest, 

 those of the jaws not elongate ; anterior ones of the upper jaw 

 compressed. India. 



Odontomus, Dum. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 450. Lycodon, sp., Boie. 

 Schlegel. Ilurriah, sp., Coluber, sp., Merr., Daud. 



1. Odontomus nympha. 



Russell Ltd. Serp. ii. t. 36,37. Coluber nympha, Daud. Rept. 

 vi. ]). 244. Hurriah nympha, Merr. Tent. p. 93. Lycodon 

 nympha, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 522; Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 120. 

 Odontomus nympha, Dum. 8f Bibr. p. 450. 



Scales in thirteen rows. Light brown, with a dorsal series of 

 large round spots. 



a, b. Adult. India. Presented by Dr. Russell. 



12. Ophites, Wagler. 



Lycodon with keeled scales (in seventeen rows) ; subcaudal 

 plates two-rowed ; two nasal shields ; either one long loreal. 

 replacing an ante-ocular, or one small loreal and one ante-ocular ; 

 two posterior oculars. Habit rather elongate. Last Indies. 



Ophites, Wagl. Syst. der Amph. p. 1S(>. Sphecodes ct Ophites, 

 Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. pp. 394 & ^97. Lycodon, sp.. Boie, Schley. 

 Coluber, sp., Natrix, sp., Shaw, Merrem. 



1. Ophites subcinctus. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. t. 41. Coluber platurinus, Shaw, Zonl. 

 iii. p. 4(J8. Lycodon subcinctus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 551 ; Schley. 



