CORRIGENDA. 



Page 3. The Typhlopidci should, strictly speaking, have been 

 included amongst the families possessing • rudimen- 

 tary hind limbs ; but these organs, though prfesent, 

 are imperceptible except by dissection, whilst in the 

 three other families mentioned they are plainly visible. 



4. The parietal and frontal bones should be included in the 

 bones forming the walls of the cranial cavity. 



8, line 15. The reference letter k should apply to the basi- 

 sphenotympanio muscle. 



16, line 9 from th« bottom. For prefacing it with read prin- 

 cipally from. 



72 and 181. The Lycodon is represented on Plate IX and not 

 Plate XI. 



102, line 8 from the bottom. Omit the first M. 



133. ' Cobra monila' is perhaps a corruption of ' cobra manilha, 

 bracelet snake, (Dr. Shortt). 



138, footnote. For indigested read ingested. 



156, footnote. For invested read infested. 



161, line 16. For been read being. 



168, last line. For serpents' read serpent's. 



