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of the body. A pair of strongly enlarged praeanals ; 17 smooth subdigital 
lamellae under the fourth toe, divided along the middle. 
Chocolate-brown above with indications of several lighter longitudinal 
streaks along the corresponding parts of the longitudinal rows of dorsal 
. scales, and several slightly distinct transverse brownish bands on the lighter 
flanks and on the sides of the tail. Lower surface pearl-white, throat and 
hinder part of tail darker. 
Head and body 180 mm. 
The reproduced tail 135 « 
Ophidia. 
Fam. BOIDAE. 
17. Python amethystinus Scun. 
G. A. BoULENGER, Catal. of the Snakes, 1893, I. p. 83. 
Three specimens from Erima. 
18. Enygrus carinatus Scun. 
G. A. BouLENGER, Catal. Snakes, 1893, I. p. 107. 
Two specimens from Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, three from Erima. 
Native name in Erima: «Gyuli» or «Mányi», 
19. Enygrus asper GTHR. 
G. A. BourENGER, Catal. Snakes, 1893, I. p. 109. 
Two specimen from Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, nine from Erima. 
Native name in Erima: «Szada». 
Fam. COLUBRIDAE. 
Sess A. Aglypha. 
20. Tropidonotus picluratus SCHLEC. 
G. A. BourENGER, Catal. Snakes, 1895, I. p. 215. 
À single young specimen from Erima. 
Native name in Erima: «Gyimóró». 
91. Stegonotus modestus Scarec. 
G. A. BoULENGER, Catal. Snakes, 1893, I. p. 366. 
Three males and a female from Stephansort. 
The morphological caracters between the sexes are so different that 
I find it advisable to deal with them separately. 
Male. Rostral much broader than deep, the portion visible from ab- 
ove measuring about one fifth its distance from the frontal; frontal as long 
