The length of the specimen brought home by Captain King exceeds four feet.
The figure by M.Lacepede seems to be too short, but his description agrees admirably with our specimen, which has been presented to the British Museum.
8.

Leptophis* punctulatus (n.s.).
N.squamis laevibus apice uni-indentatis, spinae dorsalis triangularibus; cauda quadrantali, tenui, squamis aequalibus.
(*Footnote.

I have adopted Mr.Bell's manuscript name for this genus since his paper was read at the Zoological club of the Linnean Society, before the publication of my genera of Reptiles in the Annals of Philosophy, where I erroneously considered it as synonymous with Dr.
Leach's genus Macrosoma instead of my Ahaetulla.

J.E.G.) Scales uniform, pale brown, with a minute black dot impressed on the apex: body slender, compressed: abdominal scutae rather broad.

The series of scales on the side next to the ventral plates ovate and blunt; those on the sides narrow, linear, in five series; the series of scales along the centre of the back long, triangular.