106 



f~h. S (Sc. 39; V. 248; 



C. 60), $ (Sc. 39 ; V. 



245; 0. 59), & yg. 



(Sc. 39; V. 248; 0. 



60). 

 i-m. $ (So. 37, 41 ; V. 



245, 240; 0. 61, 54), 



hgr. (Sc. 40 ;, V. 252 ; 



C. 61), & yg. (So. 39 ; 



V. 237; 0.60). 



B. Pale reddisli brown above, with, a dark brown vertebral stripe 

 edged with yellow ; uniform, yellow beneath. 



n. Hgr. (Sc. 41 ; V. 235 ; 

 0.?). 



New Hebrides. 



D. McNab, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



C. Uniform pale brown or orange above, yellowish beneath. 



0. ? (Sc. 37; V. 244; S. Christoval. H.M.S. ' Herald.' 



S. Christoval. 



0. 60) 

 p. c? (Sc. 37; V. 235 



0.?). 

 q. cJ (So. 37; V. 232 



C. 66). 



r. Hgr.(Sc.39; V. 236; 



0. 69). 

 s. Yg. (Sc. 39; V. 236; 



C. 61). 



Museum of Eco- 

 nomic Geology. 

 Southern island of H. B. Guppy, Esq. 

 the Three Sisters, [P.]. 



Solomons. 

 New Hebrides. D. McNab, Esq. 



[P.]. _ 

 Havannah Harbour, Dr. Corrie [P.]. 

 New Hebrides. 



2. Enygrus bibronii. 



Enygrus bibronii, Somhr. 8( Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Zool., Sept. p. 18, 

 pi. i. (1842) ; Dum. ^ Bibr. vi. p. 483 (1844) ; Gray, Cat. p. 105 

 (1849) ; Jan, Icon. 64n. p. 77, 1. 2, pi. iii. (1861). 



Snout prominent and obliquely truncate ; canthus rostralis 

 rounded. Eostral broader than deep, not visible from above ; 

 head-scales small, irregular, with small tubercles or short keels ; 

 ten to fourteen scales from eye to eye across the forehead ; eye 

 surrounded by a circle of 14 to 18 scales ; 11 to 14 upper labials, 

 separated from the eye by a series of scales. Scales rather strongly 

 keeled, the keels forming straight lines on the back ; 31 to 33 

 scales round the thickest part of the body. Ventrals 210-225 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 50-58. Olive, greenish, or greyish above, 

 with brown, reddish, or black spots, which may be confluent into 

 longitudinal bands on the neck ; or reddish brown with black and 

 yellow spots ; a dark stripe on each side of the head behind the 

 eye ; tail with large, dark, black-edged spots separated by narrow 

 yellow interspaces ; lower parts yellowish, uniform or spotted or 

 marbled with black ; usually a black line or series of small spots 

 running along the outer border of the ventrals on the anterior part 

 of the body. 



Total length 1000 millim. ; tail 130. 



San Christoval, Fiji, and Tonga Islands. 



