]8 Kept. 
REPTIL1A AND B ATRAC HI A. 
Bothrodytes , n. g., for Amphiesma subminiatum , Reinw., and A. 
tigrinum , Boie. Cope, tf. c. p. 495. 
Grayia giarcli, n. sp., Dollo, Bull. Mus. Belg. iv, p. 158, figs., Tanganika 
district. 
JFIypsirhina polylepis, n. sp., Fischer, Abb. Ges. Ilamb. ix, Heft 1, Fly 
River, New Guinea. 
Homalopsidarum gen. ? described by F. Dreckman, J. Bomb. Soc. i, 
p. 24, Central Provinces, India, = Ferania sieboldi , Schleg. ; Murray, t. c. 
p. 219. 
Herpetodryas melcis, n. sp., Cope, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii, p. 278, 
Nicaragua. 
DendropTiidium chloroticum , n. sp., id. t. c., Guatemala. 
Ophites ruhstrati , n. sp., Fischer, Abh. Ges. Hamb. ix, Heft 1, pi. ii, 
fig. 6, Formosa. 
Cynophis mcellendorffi , n. sp., Boettger, Zool. Anz. ix, p. 520, S. China. 
Leptognathus stratissima, n. sp., Cope, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii, p. 280, 
Panama. 
Sibon frenatum, n. sp., Cope, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 184, Jalapa, 
Mexico, 
Tarbophis vivax , Fitz. On a specimen from Rasano, Talysch ; Boettger, 
iu Radde, op. cit. p.72. 
Trimorpliodon , D. & B. Synopsis of the species by Cope, P. Am. 
Phil. Soc. xxiii, p. 286. T. wilkimonii ) n. sp., id. t. c. p. 285, Chihua- 
hua, Mexico. 
Elapidjs. 
A. B. Meyer has further remarks on the extremely large poison- 
glands, extending in the abdominal cavity, of certain small Elapoid 
Snakes, formerly confounded under the name of Callophis. He gives 
a list of the species which are provided with such glands ( Adeniophis , 
Peters), and of those in which they are of normal size ( Callophis , 
Hemibungarus , and Megcerophis'). SB. Ak. Berlin, 1886, pp. 611-614. 
Hoploeephalus par , Blgr., described and figured ; Boulenger, Tr. Z. S. 
xii, p. 46, pi. vii," fig. 4. 
Boulengerina , n. g., allied to Naia. A series of 3 or 4 solid teeth 
behind the poison-fangs : rostral moderate ; 2 nasals, second in contact 
with the praeocular ; 2 postoculars ; neck non-distensible ; scales not 
arranged obliquely, smooth, in 21 series; anal single; subcaudals double. 
.Dollo, Bull. Mus. Belg. iv, p. 159. B. stormsi , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 160, figs., 
Tanganika district. 
Naia oxiana } Eichw. Note by Nikolsky ; Tr. St. Petersb. Soc. Nat. 
xvii, p. 405. 
Atractaspis leucura t n. sp., Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) x, p. 14, 
Assinie, Gold Coast. 
Hydrophjidj]. 
Remarks on habits of Sea-Snakes ; Kneeland, P. Bost. Soc. xxiii, p. 163. 
