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of the thigh : below whitish, much suffused with dusky, and some 

 irregular white spots or marbliugs along the rami of the lower 

 jaw, and also on the sides of the body and along the sides of the 

 limbs. "What appear to be the young have the head proportionally 

 less broad than in the adult, and the upper-parts have more of an 

 olive tinge, and the under-parts are ochreous-yellow, mottled with 

 reddish-brown. Hab. Sikim Himalaya. Capt. ~W\ S. Sherwill.* 



Bomblnatok sikimme^sis, nobis, n. s. Size and general charac- 

 ter of the European B. ignetjs, (Laur.), but the hind-toes free or 

 slightly webbed only at their extreme base. Male with four large 

 subquadrilateral papillose callosities on the breast, and correspond- 

 ing callosities on the upper surface of the innermost digits of each 

 fore-foot. The tubercles of the head, body, and limbs, much more 

 developed in males than in females. On the back are four irregular 

 rows of large porous tubercles, and numerous minute tubercles 

 without pores stud the rest of the upper-parts. On the hind-limbs 

 small porous tubercles are very regularly disposed. Colour dull livid 

 olive-green above, a little banded on the limbs ; flame-coloured below, 

 more or less marbled with dusky. Presented by Capt. W. S. Sherwill. 



In a collection of snakes from North Carolina presented to the 

 Society by the Bev. P. Eitzgerald, through the American Consul, 

 are two fine species of Homolopsis, which do not appear to be 

 described either by Dr. Schlegel, or among the " extra-limitals" of 

 New York by M. Dekay, or in other American lists to which we 

 have access. They may, therefore, be here briefly characterized as 

 probably new and undescribed. 



Homolopsis crassa, nobis. Form thick and massive, with sub- 

 tetragonal section ; the head broad, subtrigonal, flat, much broader 

 than the neck : body covered with 19 rows of broad, smooth and 

 shining imbricated scales, which on the sides are much larger and 

 broader than upon the back ; eyes placed very forward : a single 

 anterior frontal, and series of 7 upper and 9 lower labials. Teeth 

 very minute. Colour black above, yellowish-white below ; the sides 



* Two other forms affined to Megalophrys, and like it and Bombinator, 

 exhibiting no external tympana, also sent from the Sikim Himalaya by Capt. Sher- 

 will, we have ut present no means of classifying, for want of books of reference. 



