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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Aspidiotes^ g. n., Kjefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 20. Scales smooth ; head 
covered with regular, symmetrical shields labials without pits j nostril in a 
single plate. Only a small number of the hinder subcaudals are bifid, the 
others being entire. A. melanocephalus, from Port Denison j (head figured). 
The Recorder is not convinced that this snake belongs to the Boidce \ it is 
evidently allied to Liasis. Mr. Krefft has kindly despatched a specimen for 
the collection of the British Museum, so that a description of the dentition 
of this species can soon be given. 
Tropidophis distinctus, sp. n., Jan, part v. pi. 1, said to be from Charleston, 
which is evidently erroneous. 
Fam. AcrochordidtE. Acrochordus javanicus (Hornst.) is 
figured by Jan, 1. c. part i. pi. 4. 
Fam. ELAPiDiE. Gunther, Rept. Brit. Ind., figures Callophis 
nigrescens (Gthr.), pi. 24. figs. F, F'. 
New species and genera : — 
Ogmodon^ g. n., Peters, Monatsber. Acad. Wiss. Berl. 1864, 
p. 274, is one of the most interesting additions to our know- 
ledge of Ophidians; it is a small snake of Calamarian liabit, 
with a series of about eiglit teeth in the maxillary, gradually 
decreasing in lengtli posteriorly, the two anteiiior of which are 
perforated and grooved, the others showing a groove. Loreal 
none, replaced by the elongated prseocular; scales smooth, in 
seventeen rows. O. vitianus, fig. 4, from the Feejee Islands. 
Simotes mistralis, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 180 (with a woodcut), 
from Queensland, — The Recorder has examined this species ; it is a veno- 
mous snake, belonging to the genus Brachyurophis (Gthr.). 
Callophis anmdaris, GUnther, 1. c, p. 350, pi. 24. fig. I. 
Blaps eerasinus, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 179, from Malabar. 
This supposed neW species belongs to the genus Callophis. 
Xmurelaps is a very interesting new genus established by Gunther (/. c. 
p. 346) for JElapsbimgaroides (Cant.), difl'ering from Bungarus only by having 
bifid subcaudal shields. 
Bungarus ceylonicuSy Gunther, 1. c. p. 344. 
Hoplocephalus ramsayi, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 180 (with a wood- 
cut), from New South Wales. — Hoplocephalus 7iiyro-striatuSy Krefft, 1. c. 
p. 181, from Rockhampton. 
Causus rostratuSf Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 116, pi. 15, from TJgogo 
(Central Africa). 
Dendraspis polylepis^ Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 310, from the 
Zambesi. 
Fam. IlYDROPHiDiE. Dr. Gunther (Rept. Brit. Ind.) has given 
a complete account of the species of this family ; he admits Pla- 
tuTuSy Aipysurus, Disteiraj Acalyptus, Enhydrina, and Pelamis 
as distinct genera, leaving all the other forms united in Hydro- 
phis. Plaluras and Aipysarus deviate so much from the other 
