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Show SSft ' APPENDIX C.- RKPTCLUB. tack jand tail, however, exhibit feu* or more lortgitadiBal furrows or stripes on each of them. > The lower part of the head and throat is whitish, the belly bluish. „ Above, oKvaceeus* brown, with two broad bands of black en'each side^ and perhaps two narrow one* on the bade extending from tfye head'to the anterior region, of the tail. ; A whitish, car perhaps yellowish ' stripe esrtenda from the opening o£ the* ear to; behind- the hind legftr a? uUa aiipilar one . from the occiput, to the . origin, of the taiL This species inhabits the same location in Gr* goa4 » JEZparfa $ rincieau4ku The specimen fignred, together, with several others, were' collected by Bev. George Gearys and sent by Mm to Dr- Avery « L Skilton* to whom- we are indebted for their examination* and to whom we W e dedicated: it, as a slight acbmwledgmemt o£ gratitude. • 1 ^ Genus CSUKGHILUA,. Baird and Girard* Gm. ORAM,-( Three pairs of frontal" plates; a Yery small loral, and several p& torbitala. Soeleeoarinated. N In spite of the great uniformity in the plan of structure of' ophidian reptiles, and especially of the genera Coluber and Tpopi-dpiotu*, we do qbt hesitate jn separating generioally from both of these, the species hereon described.. The genus CkurchilUa has three paird of frontal plater, one jnor$ than in both Coluber and TropidonotM*; the middle pair, however, is subjected to some irregularities, by which, instead- of One pair, there is only an odd plate. In either case it is a con-statot character proper to our geifus.. There is a small loral plate and seVeral ptatorbkals. The scales of the upper part of the body are cannated, as in tropidonofus, but the lateral row; which ia contiguous to the* Ventral shields, is scarcely larger than the other- while in Tropi-donotu$ r the scales composing that row are much the largest CHU& CHILLIA BHLLONA, Baird and Girard* Bnxr. CRAB.- Body yellowish, with a series of large enbhexagonat patches of v '. brown, bordered. with black, and two or three- rows of smaller patches oaths' aides. A brownish black band across the eyas, p& m top of head to theaagk^ f • the mouth. ^. , r . This snake attains a considerable sissp. The tail, properly ao oalled, is comparatively very short, forming only the jtinth part |