. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Dr. 0. Wucherer on the Ophidians of Bahia. 251. Skull of Cuscus ornatus (side view). In the British Museum there are two young specimens of the genus which I am not able to determiue with certainty. They are both of a fulvous-brown colour, and without any streak ou the back. 1. Said to come from " Amboyna," and is supposed to be a young C. orientalis ; the sex is doubtful, but probably a male. 2. The other was sent by Mr. Wallace from Macassar in 1857, and is a young
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Dr. 0. Wucherer on the Ophidians of Bahia. 251. Skull of Cuscus ornatus (side view). In the British Museum there are two young specimens of the genus which I am not able to determiue with certainty. They are both of a fulvous-brown colour, and without any streak ou the back. 1. Said to come from " Amboyna," and is supposed to be a young C. orientalis ; the sex is doubtful, but probably a male. 2. The other was sent by Mr. Wallace from Macassar in 1857, and is a young male. I formerly considered it as a variety of C. celehensis (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 43) ; and it is like that species in se- veral particulars ; but the want of the dorsal streak is a great pecu- liarity, which was not so distinctly seen before it was stuffed. On the Ophidians of the Province of Bahia, Brazil. By Dr. Otho Wucherer, Corr. Memb. (Part II.*) Of the family of Coronellidce several species of Liophis are very common in this province—Liophis cobella, L. Merremii, L. regincB, and L. conirostris. The last appears to me to occur only in the vicinity of the city of Bahia. In several collections of Ophidians sent to me from different parts of the province, I never found a single specimen, whilst it is rather common in the vicinity of the city of Bahia. It never attains to the same size as the other species. Some specimens oiL. Merremii show so constantly certain differences from others, that I feel tempted to consider them as belonging to a distinct species, particularly as those differences are by no means referable to the different age of the individuals ; however I shall withhold my sug- gestions until I shall have collected more materials to substantiate them. Erythrolamprus venustissimus, of the same family, is not unfrequent. It shares with different other snakes the Portuguese name of Cobra Coral. * See Annals, vol. viii. p. 179, for Part Please note that these i
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