5)00 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the [Sept. 



minus may easily be mistaken for an earthworm, until its serpentine 

 movements, the darting of the white furcated tongue, while the head 

 and neck are raised, make it known. In confinement they refuse food 

 and water. In all dissected, the stomach contained some earth ; in a 

 few, remains of insects, (myriapoda, ants.) A young female had a 

 string of six cylindrical soft eggs, of a yellowish white colour, each 

 about f of an inch in length, ^ in diameter. 



FAM. BOID.E, Bonaparte, 



BURROWING. 

 Gen. Cylindrophis, Wagler. 

 Scales smooth, imbricate, hexagonal ; those of the abdomen broader 

 than the rest ; nostrils subvertical, opening in the lower part of the 

 anterior frontal shield ; neither nasals, frenals, nor prse-orbitals ; a single 

 post-orbital ; frontals large, reaching the minute eye, and the large 2nd and 

 3rd labials ; supra-orbitals, occipitals and vertical distinct ; tail very short. 



Cylindrophis rufus, (Laurenti.) 



{Gmelin. 

 Schneider. 

 Shaw. 

 Anguis striatus, Gmelin. 



Anguis scytale, Linne, apud Russell, II. PI. 27- 

 Shilay Pamboo, Russell, II. PI. 28 (young.) 

 Anguis corallina, Shaw. 

 Eryx rufa, Daudin. 



rGray. 



Tortrix rufa, Merrem, apiuH ^,[^', 



I Filippi. 

 Scytale scheuchzeri, Merrem. 

 Ilysia rufa, Lichtenstein, apud Fitzinger. 

 Cylindrophis resplendens, Wagler. 

 Cylindrophis rufa, Gray, apud Dumeril and Bibron. 



Iridescent blackish brown above, beneath with alternate black and 

 yellowish white transversal bands or interrupted bars. Iris black, 

 pupil vertically contracted by the light ; tongue whitish. Central 

 series of abdominal scales 206 ; subcaudal 6. 



Habit. — Singapore. 



Java, Tranquebar, Bengal. (?) 

 A single individual, turned up with the earth in a garden at Singa- 

 pore belonging to Dr. Montgomcrie, differs from the description 



