OPHIDES. COLUBERIDiB. 365 



Oligodon Boie. Tail short ; heads hort, obtuse^ narrow, 

 atriventus. Seba, ii. pi. 86. fig. 5. 



Erpetodryas. Tail very long ; head lengthened, and 

 very distinct ; mouth very wide ; scales small, partly 

 carinated, and placed in oblique series, 

 carinatus. Seba, ii. pi. 56. fig. 3. 



HuRRiA Daud. Tail conical ; anterior sub-caudal 

 plates simple, posterior double ; dorsal scales uniform, 

 nympha. Russ. pi. 36, 37. 



LioPHis Wag. Head scarcely distinct from the body ; 

 scales imbricate, very smooth ; mouth small or mo- 

 derate ; hinder teeth largest. 



L- poicelogyrus Max. GrifF. Cuv. 



Calamaria Boie. Body cylindrical, confounded with 

 the head ; tail very short ; scales smooth ; caudal 

 plates entire, in two rows. 



C. Linnae Boie. (Coluber calamarius Linn.) 



Brachyorrhos Kuhl. Head not distinct ; eyes small ; 

 tail short, acute. 



albus. Linn. Mus. Adol. pi. 14. fig. 2. 



Lycodon Boie. Scales nearly square ; body long, sub- 

 compressed j abdominal plates convex. 

 L. fasciolatus Linn. Shaw, Russell, Serp. i. pi. 21. 



Zenopeltis Boie. Nose rounded ; plates of the head 

 triangular, larger than the dorsal scales ; tail conical. 

 Z. eoncolor Boie. 



Scytale Merr. Head ovate, indistinct, plated ; body 

 cylindrical ; scales equal ; sub-caudal plates single. 

 S. coronata. Seba, ii. pi. 41. fig. 1. 



I>ryinus Merr, Head long, with regular plates ; muzzle 

 acute ; scales slender, equal ; tail very long ; sub- 

 caudal plates double. 



D. fulgidus. Daud. pi. 80. / 



Passerita Wag. (^Jig. 120. a.) Like the last, but the 

 dorsal scales are triangular, and the lateral scales 

 linear. 



P. nasutus. Russ. Serp. i. pi. 12. 



