DENDROPHIS (PHILOTHAMNUS) NATALENSIS. Smith. 
Reptilia.— Plate LX1V. 
D. superne subolivacea, inferne pallide griseo-viridis ; dorsi versus caput squamis plus minusque brunne 
nigro marginatis ; cute inter squamas brunneo-nigra ; oculis magms. 
Longitudo e nasi apice ad basin caudee 21 unc. ; caudae 1 1 unc. 3 lin, 
C OLOU u —The upper and lateral parts of the head, the back, the sides of 
the body, and the upper and lateral parts of the tail, a tint in J e ™ e ia ® 
between sap-green and oil-green ; the scales of the anterior halt of 
partially edged very narrowly with liver-brown. The under surface of the 
hiwer jaw intermediate between oil-green and apple-green ; the under par so 
the body and tail pale apple-green When the scales are removed the pinner 
parts appear pale greenish blue. Skin between the scales brownish dack- 
Form, &c.— Figure rather slender ; body rather thickest near its middle . 
tail long and tapered to a fine point. Head rather broader than the nec, 
and subovate, between the anterior canthus of the eyes and t ie nape ie 
width is equal, anteriorly to the eyes it is less, and gradually decreases tc 
wards the nose, which is obtuse and slightly arched anteriorly. ie sic es oi 
the head are slightly convex, and the upper lip, towards the angle o e 
mouth is of all parts the most prominent. Nostrils anteriorly crescentic 
The upper surface of the head between the eyes depressed, the palpebral 
dates rather prominent and convex, the other parts of the upper surface of 
Ihe head nearly level. Rostral plate subcordiform, its apex, which projects 
between the naso-rostral plates, rounded; the naso- rostra subquadrangular, 
the antericinferior angle rounded; fronto-nasal plates broader than long, 
and five-sided ; frontal plate anteriorly truncated, beh.nd mangular , shghtly 
contracted at the middle ; palpebral plates subovate, broadest behtnd ; occ- 
pUd plates large, elongated, considerably longer than broad, the outer edge 
