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Ti'opidonotus melanogaster (Wiegm.), Peters, Monatsber. Acad. Wiss. Berl. 
1864, p. 389, from Mexico. 
Edeling, Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. 1864, describes two new 
species from Borneo : — 
Tropidonotus maculatuSf p. 203, and Amphiesma rufo-ior quotum^ p. 204 j 
the latter appears to be closely allied to Tropidonotus hucomelas (Gthr.). 
XenochrophiSf g. n., proposed by Giinthor, Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 273, for Ti'opi- 
dmotus eerasogaster (Cant.) j it is distinguished from Tropidonotus and other 
allied genera by having the nasal shield undivided, and an almost isodont 
dentition, the teeth being widely set, those in the middle of the maxillary 
series and those in front of the mandible being rather larger than the others. 
Fam. Homalopsid^. 
Herpeton tentaculatum (Lac^p.) figured by Jan, 1. c. part i. pi. 1. 
The following known species have been figured by Gunther, 
Kept. Brit. Ind. : — 
Hypsirhina e?iA 3 /i/r»s(Schneid.),pl. 22. figs. K, K'j Hipistes hydrinus (Cant.), 
pi. 24. fig. H. 
Cantor ia violacea (Girard) receives a new name — C. elongata — this species 
being different fr’om Coronella violacea (Cant.), Gunther, p. 277. 
JPythonia semizonata (Blyth) is considered to be identical with Homalopsis 
huccata by Gunther, p. 285. 
Homalopsis hydrinus (Cant.), Hijnstes fasciatus (Gray), and £itia hydroides 
(Gray) prove to be the same species : see GUnther, p. 287. 
Fam. RACHioDONTiDiE. Prof. Peters describes some varieties 
of Dasypeltis scaber, Monatsber. Acad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864, 
p. 644. 
Fam. DENDROPHiDiE. Dr. Gunther believed that the name 
of Rhamnophis given by him to a West African snake (Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1862, p. 129) is preoccupied, and therefore he 
substituted for it that of C^'ypsidomus (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 
p. 309). We must add that this was caused merely by a mis- 
apprehension of the name of Rhamphiophis (Peters), so that 
Rhamnophis, as originally proposed, may be retained. 
Gonyosoma gramineum, sp. n,, Gunther, Ropt. Brit. Ind. p. 294, pi. 23. fig. D, 
probably from Khasya. 
PhyUophis, g. n., allied to Gonyosoma, but with the nasal shield undivided, 
two prseoculars, keeled scales in twenty-three series, &c. — Ph. carinata, 
Gunther, 1. o. p. 295, pi. 21. fig. B, from China. 
Fam. Dryiophid^. Gunther, Kept. Brit. Ind., has given a 
figure of the head of Tragops fronticinctus (Gthr.), pi. 23. fig. E. 
Tragops dispar is a new species from the Anamallay Mountains : Gunther, 
p. 303, pi. 23. figs. A, A'. 
Gunther describes and figures Passer ita fusca (Cope) imder the name of 
P. purpurascens (p. 306, pi. 23. fig. F), the name of ‘^ftcscus” properly be- 
longing to a variety of P. myctei'izans. 
