5-li MU. W, THEOBALD, JUN., ON THE 



fiftli small, the sixth, seventh, and eighth very large. Pupil over 

 the suture of the fifth and sixth labial. 



Colour uniform dusky yellow, or ochraceus ; beneath whitish. 

 Captured near Rangoon. 



Precisely similar to the last, except that an anterior labial is 

 suppressed, so that the third labial enters the orbit. 



Captured at Maulmain, and presented to me by Col. David 

 Browne. 



Family AMBLYCEPHALID^. 

 Pareas, Wagler. 



P. MACULAEius, Blyth. (The young.) 



Aplopeltura boa, Sch. apud Blyth (the adult). 

 As the young and adults of this curious snalce have been 

 referred to different genera by Blyth, I shall give a somewhat 

 full description of the specimens in the Museum of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal. But for Dr. Giinther's opinion I should 

 hardly have ventured to separate them from P. carinata, though 

 some of the details do not quite correspond, e.g. colour &c. 



a. Adult. Body .... 19-50 



Tail ... . . 4-50 = 24-00. 



Body strongly compressed. Scales smooth, in fifteen rows, or 

 slightly keeled on the back. Head high, quadrate, blunt, pug- 

 nosed. Eye large, pupil vertical. Eostral high, but not reaching 

 the top of the head, deeply excavated below. Nasal a large 

 single shield, high, with the nostril pierced behind. Upper 

 labials six or seven, the anterior ones very high and narrow. Eye 

 bordered beneath with five, six, or seven small shields, which 

 exclude the labials from the orbit. Loreal one, rather small. 

 Erontals subequal, anterior ones the smallest. Superciliaries 

 large, fully as large as a postfrontal. Vertical and occipital 

 normal, nearly equal in size. Lower labials eight, very narrow. 

 Three pairs of large transverse gular shields, the first forming a 

 suture with the four front labials. Anal entire. Subcaudals 

 divided. 



Colour uniform ochraceous brown, with obsolete traces of 



