58 MB. yr. TnEouALD, jvn., on the 



plates. Thia is a scarcer species thau the last, as I have only seen 

 one young specimen from Thaict-mio. 



HOMALOPSIS, Klihl. 

 H. BUCCATA, L. 



a. Adult male. Body .... 1900 



Tail .... 600=2500. 

 Back brown. Sides and belly white. Thirty-four sharply 

 defined whitish bars across the back. Alternate scxita with dark 

 side-patches, head symmetrically marked with black. This is 

 a very handsome snake, and generally diffused, though not so 

 plentiful as HypsirMna enhydris. It is of very stout habit, and the 

 head-shielda are often very irregular. The above specimen had 

 five frontals, and was captured at Pegu. 



Gekaeda, Gray. 



G. BICOLOB, Grray. 



a. Male. Body . . . . 11 00 



Tail .... l-i50 = 12-50. 



Colour muddy olive. Lips (except rostral plate whicli is darlc) 

 and lateral stripe of two and a half scales, whitish. Cliin whitish. 

 Belly pale, with the scuta dark-edged. Eye small, pupil round or 

 slightly oval. 



This snake was taken in a swamp at Rangoon, and corresponds 

 so exactly with Gray's description that I have no doubt that the 

 recorded habitat, " West Indies,'^ in this case, as in others, is a 

 mistake for " l^ast Indies." 



HiPiSTES, Gray. 



H. UYDEiNua, Cantor. 



a. Adult (?). Body .... M-OO 



Tail .... 1-50 =15 -50. 

 Colour greenish-yellow above, broadly barred with blackish 

 grey. Forty-four bars, as broad as tlie interspaces, but not 

 reaching to the belly. 'Sides and belly white. This specimen I 

 took alive close to Haingi Island. Its coloration is precisely 

 that of a IlydropMs, and it is clearly an osculant form, uniting 

 -the Homalopsidse with the pelagic serpents. 



