250 APPENDIX.— REPTILES. 



Page 103. Zamenis hippocrepis. 

 /'. Very large specimen. Mogador. — Belly red. 



Page 104. Zamenis cliffordii. 



i. Adult. Africa. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



Page 109. Coryphodon margaritiferus. 



It was not until the first sheets of this Catalogue were printed 

 that I saw Fischer's paper in the Hamburger Abhandlungen ausdem 

 Gebiete der Ntrwiss. 1856, where I at once recognized the identity 

 of the above species with his Meizodon regularis, p, 112. I was 

 very glad to see how perfectly his description agrees with my 

 own, and I thiok it quite right that he has established a new genus 

 for this species. 



Page 110. Coryphodon korros. 

 i. Half-grown. East Indies. Presented by the E.I. Company. 



Page 113. Coryphodon carinatus. 



h. Adult : injured. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 i. Young. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Page 114. Herpetodryas fuscus. 



h'. Adult. Guayaquil. From Mr. Eraser's Collection. 



h". Half-grown. Guayaquil. From Mr. Fraser's Collection. 



Page 115. Herpetodryas carinatus. 



</. Half-grown. South America. From the Collection of the 

 Zoological Society. = p. 



Page 121. Add : 4a. Cyclophis calamaria. 



Loreal none, united with the single nasal shield ; seven upper 

 labials. Greyish brown ; front part of back on each side with a 

 series of obsolete blackish spots, confluent behind and forming a 

 very narrow, undulated line. 



a. Adult. Ceylon. 



b. Adult. Ceylon. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Description. — Habit moderately slender ; head elongate, ovoid 

 w ith rounded crown, and with moderate, rather conical muzzle. 

 Rostral shield rather large, reaching the surface of crown, rounded 

 behind ; anterior frontals much smaller than posterior ones ; 



