CALAMARID 2S. ay) 
Africa and Australia furnish no yarieties which have as 
vet been elassitied. 
In South Ameriea there are several varieties. 
FIFTH GeNvs—CALAMARID-E, (Dreurt Suokes.) 
Ventral shields distiner; twa oecipitals, tail tapering. 
Mix species, comprising twelve varieties. 
Several varieties are found in India, and many more in 
South America, but the following are such species as have 
been already classitied, view: 
No. 1. Calamarid Calamarea. 5 varicties. 
oa * macrocalamus. — 1 variety. 
a. oxyealamus. cs 
4. # geuphis. 1 He 
ay . aspidura, 3 varieties. 
6. hoplocereus. 1 variety. 
Dr. Russell deseribes a variety found in East India, which 
is also mentioned by Scba, viz.: 
Abdominal scuta 1a]. subcaudal SS 938 = 244. Length 13”’, tail 
alone °°) Called + Dooblee.’ Hy :d a little broader than the neck, ob- 
leng-ovate. compressed. 10 lamin; meoth large ne 7-2s, marginal row 
of reefA in upper jaws; ccs large: costrils small, elose; teunk round ; 
rai? very tapering. slender. and terminates Ina long sharp point. Se 
on the back ovate, carinate. on the other part smooth ; sofer of head light 
brown, trunk freckled with dusky yellow spots: scuta yellowish-white : 
most of them with black margins. 
Another variety described by Russell is called, in Tranque- 
bar, Neer Pamboo: in Caleutta, Dooblee. 
Abdominal seata 146, subeaudai squama, $2 == 22S) Length 1’ 22". tail 
3g'" 0 Color dusky lead, with numerous black dots on back and sides 
abdomen, and under part of tail white. 
A third variety, called in Tranquebar, Neer Pambou, 
