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b. Scales smooth^ rhombic^ six-sided^ with small irregular tubercles. 
XVI. Hypsirhina, Wagler. Head small, shielded; anterior frontals 
3, transverse : vertebral and superciliary rather small ; occipital moderate ; 
loreal square ; upper labial large, entire, hinder one sometimes double ; 
body fusiform ; scales smooth : tail conical. 
f Eyes over the suture of the fourth and fifth labial shields. 
* Scales in \9 rows. Tail short. 
1. Hypsirhina plumbea. Homalopsis plumbea, Kuhl, Schlegel, Phy. Ser. 
347, t. 13, fig. 12, 13. Tail very short, thick : lead-coloured, beneath white, 
black-marbled. Var. with a black dorsal streak. 
Inhabits J ava. Mus. Leyden. 
Scales in 25 rows. Tail elongate. 
2. Hypsirhina Aer. Homalopsis Aer, Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 347, t. 13, 
fig. 10, 11 : Ei-p. Java, tab. 41,ined. Coluber Pythonissa, Daud. Hydrus 
Enhydrus, Schn. Enhydrus ccerulea, Latr. from Russel, i. t. 30. 
Inhabits India and Java. Mus. Leyden and Paris. 
ff Eye over the fourth labial shield. 
3. Hypsirhina trilineata. Lead-coloured, beneath grey, minutely dotted : 
belly-shields with 3 longitudinal black streaks : head large, elongate ; tail 
blackish, with a series of white spots on each side, beneath : subcaudal plates 
forming 3 narrow lines, black-edged : scales in 23 series : larger scales 
(nearly dry) covered with small irregular blister-like convexities. Body 
25, tail 6 inches. 
Inhabits India. Brit. Mus. 
4. Hypsirhina hilineata. Lead-coloured, beneath white ; sides greyish 
white, with a black streak formed by the outer edge of the ventral shields : 
head small : tail elongate, lead-eoloured, with 2 obscure pale streaks above, 
white beneath, with 3 black lines formed by the edge of the shields : scales 
in 21 rows. Body 18, tail 4^ inches. 
Inhabits China. 
Like the former, but the head is smaller, and there is a black line on the 
belly. 
5. Hypsirhina Chinensis. Lead-coloured, with a rather broad (2 scales 
wide) white streak along the lower part of each side, just above the last se- 
ries of scales : ventral shields lead-coloured, with a whitish hinder edge : 
scales in 23 series : tail short, compressed, whitish, clouded beneath. Bo- 
dy 13^, tail 3 inches. 
Inhabits China ; J. R. Reeves, Esq. Brit. Mus. 
6. Hypsirhina furcata. Above pale brown, with 2 pale streaks : head 
with 2 white streaks united over the nose ; lips, side and beneath white, with 
a narrow brown line on the edge of the abdominal shields : tail beneath 
white, with 3 narrow brown lines. — 180 + 51. 
Inhabits ? Brit. Mus. Young. 
One specimen has the hinder ocular scales on one side united into one. 
7. Hypsirhina Hardivickii, Gray, Tllust. Ind. Zool. t. Homal. plum- 
