14 



COLTJBBID^. 



Kg. 1. 



Skull of Homalopsis bticcata. 



J\- 1. Homalopsis taccata. 



Merr. Beitr. ii, p. 36, pi. x. (1790) ; Russell, Ind. Serp. ii. pi. xxxiii 

 (1801). 



Coluber buccatus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 29, pi. xix. fier. 3 (1764) 

 and S. N. i. p. 377 (1766). ^' 



subalbidus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1103 (1788). 



Vipera buccata, Bavd. Rept. vi. p. 220 (1803). 



Coluber monilis, part., Daud. op. cit. vii. p. 69 (1803). 



borridiis, Itaud. I. c. p. 71. 



Homalopsis molurus, Kuhl, Isis, 1826, p. 213. 



monilis, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 621. 



buccata, Schleg. Rhys. Serp. ii. p. 837, pi. xiii. figa. 1-3 (1837) • 



Cantor, Cat. Mai Rept. p. 96 (1847) ; Gh-ay, Cat. p. 67 (1849) • 

 Bum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 968 (1854) ; Qunth. Rep. Brit. Ind. p. 285 

 (1864); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Rhys. iii. 1865, p. 266; Theob. 

 Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 185 (1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind Rent 

 p. 874, fig. (1890). ^ ' 



bardwickii, Oray, Zool. Misc. p. 65 (1842), and Cat. p. 67. 



semizonata, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiv. 1855, p. 187. 



Pytbonia semizonata, Blyth, op. cit. xxYiii. 1859, p. 297. 



Frontal often broken up into several shields, not much broader 

 sometimes even narrower than tbe supraocular ; parietals short • 

 loreal sometimes divided into two ; one or two prse- and two post^ 

 oculars ; one to three subooulars sometimes present ; temporals small 



