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LANGAYA. LANGAYA. 



Generic Character 



Scuta abdominalia. 

 Annuli caudales. 

 Squama terminales. 



Abdominal Plates, 

 Caudal Rings, 

 Terminal Scales^ 



SNOUTED LANGAYA. 



Langaya Nasuta. L. maxilla superiore rostrata. 

 Langaya with the upper jaw produced in form of a snout. 

 Langaha. Bruguiere. Joiirn. de Fhysique, 1784. Cepede Ovip. 

 2. p. 469. 



Abdominal scales 184, caudal rings 42. 



TThE genus Langaya, consisting of a single 

 species only, differs from all the rest of the serpent 

 tribe in having the upper part or beginning of the 

 tail marked into complete rings or circular divi- 

 sions resembling those on the body of the Amphis- 

 hcena, while the extreme or terminal part is co- 

 vered Avith small scales, as in the genus Anguis, 



The Langaya nasuta, or Long-snouted Langaya, 

 is a native of Madagascar, and appears to have 

 been first described by Mons. Bruguiere of the 

 Royal Society of Montpellier, whose account of 

 it is inserted in the Journal de Physique for the 



