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272 COLUBRID, 
belly yellowish, with large brown spots anteriorly, speckled with 
brown posteriorly ; the outer ends of the ventrals blackish, forming 
a lateral stripe. 
Total length 610 millim.; tail 115. 
China. 
a. 2 (V. 140; C. 51). Chi Kiang. Mr. Fortune [C.]. (Type.) 
3. Pseudoxenodon inornatus. . 
Xenodon inornatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 541; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 
p: eeaa iii, figs. 10 & 12 (1837); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. 
i. 1863, p. 319, and Icon, Gén. 19, pl. v. fig. 2 (1866), 
Body stout. Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; 
internasals shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal a little longer than 
broad, as long as or longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 
a little shorter than the parietals; loreal deeper than long; two or 
three pre- and three postoculars; temporals 24+2 or 2+3; eight 
upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye; four or five lower 
labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; chin-shields broad 
and subequal in size. Scales in 19 rows, dorsals keeled, laterals 
smooth. Ventrals 118-121; anal divided; subcaudals 36-41. 
Olive-brown above; young with a A-shaped black band on the 
nape; yellowish or brownish below, speckled with dark brown; a 
light streak separates the belly from the flanks. 
Total length 470 millim.; tail 70. 
Java. 
14, HELICOPS. 
Pseudoeryx, part., Fitzing. N. Class, Rept. p. 29 (1826). 
Helicops, part., Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 170 (1830); Jan, Arch. 
Zool. Anat, Phys. iii. 1865, he 245, 
Tropidonotus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 297 (1837); Dum. § 
tbr. vii. p. 549 (1854). 
Homalopsis, part., Schleg. 1. ce. p. 332. 
Helicops, Gray, Zool. seg ye 64 (1842), and Cat. Sn. p. 71 (1849) ; 
Dum. §& Brbr. t. ce. p. 742; Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (3) vii. 
1861, p. 425; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept, p. 352 (1890). 
Dimades, part., Gray, Zool. Mise. p. 65, 
Uranops, Gray, Cat. Sn. p. 68. - 
Tachynectes, Gray, 1. c. p. 69. 2 
Tropidophis (non D. & B.), Gray, 1. ¢. p. 69. 
Myron, part., Gray, l..¢. p. 70. 
Atretium, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 299; Giinth. Rept. Brit. 
Ind, p. 272 (1864). 
Limnophis, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) xv. 1865, p. 96. 
Liodytes, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxii, 1885, p. 104, and Proce, 
U.S, Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 666, 
Maxillary teeth 18 to 25, posterior longest ; mandibular teeth 
subequal. Head not, or but slightly, distinct from neck; eye 
moderate or small, with round pupil; nostrils directed upwards, in 
a semidivided nasal ; a single internasal, Body rather stout, cylin- — 
