coLUBEira:. 



169 



a. Ad. (V. 190 ; C. 29). Siam. Sir R. Schomburgk 



[P.]. 



6. Ad. (V. 190; 0.' 29). Siam. 



e. Ad. (V. 178 ; 0. 31). Singapore. Dr. Dennys [P.]. 



d. Yg., bad state. Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



e~f. Ad. & hgT. (V. 176, Nias. Hr. Sundermann [0.]. 



179 ; 0. 29, 29). 



ff. Ad. (V. 184 ; 0. 81). Borneo. H. Low, Esq. [P.l. 



A. Ad. (V. 181 ; 0. 28). Borneo. Sir J. Brooke [P.]. 



i, k. Ad. & hgr. (V. 191, Celebes. 



166; 0.30,28). 



I. Yg. (V. 173 ; C. 30). ? Haalar Hospital. 



m. Ad., skel. P Lieut. Bevan [P.]. 



n. Skull. Java. 



Pam. 7. COLUBRID^. 



Hydri, Paeudoviperas, Colubrini, Oppel, Ordn. Rept. p. 49, 1811. 

 Colubroidea, Bungaroidea, Viperoidea, part., Fitzinger, Neue Classif. 



Rept. p. 11, 1826. 

 Macrostomata, part., (Oligodonta, Isodonta, part., Heterodonta, Am- 



phibola, Autiochalina, part., tIoloclialina,part.), J". Muller, Zdtschr. 



f. Physiol, iv. p. 270, 1831. 

 HydridM, part., Colubrides, part.. Gray, Cat. Sn. p. 2, 1849. 

 Aglyphodontes, part., Opisthoglyphes, Prot^roglyphes, Dumeril, 



Mem. Ac. So. xxiii. p. 419, 1858; Dumeril ^ Bibron, Erp.Gen. 



vii. 1854. 

 Asinea, part. (Glyphodonta,- Colubrina, Calamarina, Acroobordina), 



Stannius, Zoot. Amph. p. 5, 1856. 

 Colubi-inee, part., Oiinther, Cat. Col. Sn. p. 1, 1858. 

 Asinea, part., Proteroglypha, Cope, Proe. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 230. 

 Colubriformes, part., Colubriformes venenosi, Oiinther, JRept. Brit. 



/™«Z. -pp. 168 & 837, 1864. 

 Asinea, part. (Acroohordidse, Notbopidae, Oolubridse, part., Acon- 



tiopbidse), Proteroglypba, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xxiii. 



p. 479, 1886. 

 Colubridse, BouUnger, Faun. Ind., Mept. p. 234, 1890. 



Pacial- bones movable ; praefrofltal not in contact with nasal ; 

 transpalatine present ; pterygoid extending to mandible or quad- 

 rate ; siipratemporal present, attached scale-like to the skull and 

 suspending quadrate; maxillary horizontal, not movable per- 

 pendicularly to the transpalatine. Mandible without coronoid 

 bone. Both jaws toothed. 



Divided into three parallel series : — 



A. AsLTPHA. — All the teeth solid, not grooved. - _ 



B. OpisTHoaiTPHA. — One or more of the posterior maxillary teeth 



grooved. J ~ '' / , % 



C. Peotbeogltpha. — Anterior maxillary taeth grooved or " per- 



forated." "" ry £'/, , ,^ .//,,,, 



