FORDONIA 115 



consists of only a head I am uncertain whether the identification 

 is correct. Only three lower labials touch the first chin shields. 



Genus FORDONIA Gray 



Homalopsis, part., ScHLEGEL, Phys. Serp. 2 (1837) 332. 



Fordonia Gray, Zool. Misc. (1842) 67; Cat. Vip. Snakes (1849) 76; 



GUNTHER, Rept. Brit. India (1864) 277; Boulengee, Fauna Brit. 



India, Rept. (1890) 378; Cat. Snalces Brit. Mus. 3 (1896) 21. 

 Hemiodontus Dumeril and Bibron, Mem. Ac. Sci. 23 (1853) 494; 



Erp. Gen. 7 (18-54) 882. 

 Hemiodontus, part, jAN, Arcli. Zool. Anat. Phys. 3 (1865) 263. 



Maxillary teeth small, 7 or 8, followed by 2 enlarged grooved 

 teeth. Mandibular teeth subequal. Head depressed, short, 

 broad, scarcely distinct from neck ; body stout, cylindrical ; tail 

 short. Eye very small, pupil vertical; upper surface of head 

 with large shields ; nostril pointing up in a single nasal ; an 

 internasal separating nasals, no loreal ; 5 upper labials ; body 

 cylindrical, scales smooth without apical pits ; ventrals rounded ; 

 tail short; subcaudals all or part in 2 rows. 



FORDONIA LEUCOBALIA (Schlegel) 



Homalopsis leucobalia Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 2 (1837) 345, pi. 13, 



figs. 8 and 9; Schlegel and Muller, Verh. Nat. Nederl. Overz. 



Bezitt., Rept. (1844) 61, pi. 8; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. (1847) 



102, pi. 40, fig. 5 var, 

 Fordonia leucobalia Gray, Zool. Misc. (1842) 67; Cat. Vip. Snakes 



(1849) 77; Boulenger, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. (1890) 378; 



Sclater, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 60 (1891) 245; Boulenger, Cat. 



Snakes Brit. Mus. 3 (1896) 21. 

 Fordonia unicolor Gray, Cat. Vip. Snakes (1849) 77; Gunther, Rept. 



Brit. India (1864) 277; Zool. Rec. (1865) 154; Theobald, Cat. 



Rept. Brit. India (1876) 182; Peters and Doria, Ann. Mus. Oenova 



13 (1878) 389; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1892) 26 (Philip- 

 pines). 

 Hemiodontus leucobalia Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 7 (1854) 



884; JAN, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. 3 (1865) 264; Icon. Gen. (1868) 



28, pi. 6, fig. 1. 

 Hemiodontus chalt/bc'eus Jan, Elenco Sist. Ofid. (1863) 79. 

 Fordonia bicolor Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc. 10 (1868) 56; Cat. 



Rept. Brit. India (1876) 181. 

 Fordonia variabilis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 2 (1878) 



219. 



Description of species. — (From Boulenger.) "Rostral nearly 

 as deep as broad ; frontal a little longer than broad, longer than 

 its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the 

 parietals ; one prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 3 or 

 2 -f 3 ; five upper labials, third entering the eye ; three lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are small 



