CATALOGUE 
OF 
SNAKES. 
Order OPHIDIA.* 
“Quadrate bone articulated to the skull; brain-capsule entirely 
osseous ; rami of the mandible united by ligament. Anal cleft trans- 
verse. ‘Copulatory organs present, paired.” —Giinther, Phil. Trans. 
elvii. 1867, p. 625. 
Synopsis of the Families. 
I. No ectopterygoid (transpalatine) ; pterygoid not extending to 
quadrate or mandible ; nosupratemporal ; prefrontal forming 
a suture with nasal; coronoid present ; vestiges of pelvis, 
Maxillary vertical, loosely attached, toothed; mandible edentulous; 
a single pelvic bone. 1. Typhlopide, Vol. I. p. 3. 
Maxillary bordering mouth, forming a suture with pre 
prefrontal, and frontal, toothless; lower jaw toothed; ake 
and ischium present, latter forming a symphysis. 
2. Glaucéniidx, Vol. I. p. 57. 
Il. Ectopterygoid present ; both jaws toothed. 
A, Coronoid present ; prefrontal in contact with nasal. 
1. Vestiges of hind limbs; supratemporal present. 
Supratemporal large, ze” quadrate. 
3. Boidw, Vol. I. p. 71. 
Supratemporal small, intercalated in the cranial wall. 
. 4, Tlysiida, Vol. I. p. 131. 
* The author now regards the Snakes as forming only a Suborder Or rapes 
of the Order Squamata, Oppel, equivalent to the Suborders Lacert 
lossa, which have dealt with in the ‘Catal of Tisseda’ 
Of Benengee Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 52 (1890), and Proc. 1. Soc, 1891, 
p. 117. 
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