COLUBRID. 
1. Tetralepis fruhstorferi. hae P 
Tetralepis fruhstorferi, Boettg. 1. e. p, 125. 4 
Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; suture between 
the internasals considerably longer than that between the pre- 
frontals; frontal once and one third as long as broad, slightly 
longer than its distance from the end of the snout, considerably 
shorter than the parietals ; nasal rather large, twice as long as 
deep ; loreal as long as deep ; 3 one pre- and two postoculars; tem- 
porals 142 orl+1+ 2, anterior elongate ; four upper labials, third © 
entering the eye, fourth very long; four ‘lower labials in contact 
with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. 
Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 199-201; anal divided ; subcaudals 
43. Dark reddish brown above, with an indistinct darker vertebral 
line; lower surface plumbeous or reddish grey. 
Total length 502 millim.; tail 70. 
Tengger Mts., Java, 4000 feet. 
39. LAMPROPHIS. 
Duberria, part., Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 29 (1826). . 
Coronella, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. i. p. KO (1837). om 
Lamprophis, ie art., Smith, iT Zool. S. Afr., Rept. (1847); Dum. & 
Bibr. ies: — vii. p. 427 (1854) ; Jan, ‘Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ; 
a. 2 ‘ya 
“Soha ha Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 195 (1858) ; Cope, Proc. Ac. 
Philad. 1864, p. 168. 
Maxillary teeth small, 15 to 18, anterior longest ; anterior man- y ; 
dibular teeth strongly enlarged. Head small, not distinct trout i 
Fig. 19. 
GEER 
Maxillary and mandible of Lamprophis aurora. 
neck ; eye moderate, with vertically subelliptic pupil. Body eine 
drical ; scales smooth, without pits, in 19 to 23 rows; ventrals 
rounded. Tail short, subcaudals in two rows. Hy pepophyaaaas 
developed throughout the vertebral column, 
South Africa. 
Synopsis of the Species. a 
I. Scales in 23 rows. ‘ 
Internasals a little shorter than the pra- 
frontals; loreal a little longer than _ 
deep ; two pairs of chin-shields ........ ‘1, aurora, p. 821, 
