14 COLUBRID. 
Skull of Homalopsis buccata. 
1. Homalopsis buccata. 
Merr. Beitr. ii, p. 36, pl. x. (1790) ; Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. pl. xxxiii. 
(1801). 
Coluber buccatus, Zinn, Mus, Ad. Frid. p. 29, pl. xix. fig. 3 (1754), 
and 8S. N. i. p. 877 (1766). 
subalbidus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1103 (1788). 
Vipera buccata, Daud. Rept. vi. p. 220 fige'9 
Coluber monilis, part., Daud. op. cit. vii. p. 59 (18038). 
— horridus, Daud, 1. c. p. 71. 
Homalopsis molurus, Kuhi, Isis, 1826, p. 213. 
monilis, Bote, Isis, 1827, p, 521. 
— buccata, cn Phys. Serp. ii. p. 837, pl. xiii. figs, 1-3 (1837) ; 
Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. As 96 (1847); Gray, Cat. p. 67 (1849) ; 
Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 968 (1854) ; Giinth. . Brit. Ind. p. 
(1864); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 256; ‘ 
Cat. t. Brit. Ind. p. 185 (1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 
p. 374, fig. (1890). 
—— hardwickii, Gray, Zool. Mise. p. 65 (1842), and Cat. p. 67. 
—— semizonata, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiv. 1855, p. 187. 
Pythonia semizonata, Blyth, op. cit. xxviii. 1859, p, 297. 
Frontal often broken up into several shields, not much broader, 
sometimes even narrower than the supraocular; parietals short; 
loreal sometimes divided into two; one or two pre- and two post- 
oculars ; one to three suboculars sometimes present ; temporals small, 
