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Show 656 DR. J. ANDERSON O N REPTILES A ND [June 18, 19. CffiLOPELTIS MOILENSIS, EetlSS. Coluber moilensis, Eeuss, Mus. Senck. i. 1834, p. 142, pi. vii. fig. 1 a & b. Ccelopeltis producta, Gervais, Ac. Sc. et Lettres de Montpellier, iii. 1857, p. 512, pi. v. fig. 3. Rhagerhis producta, Peters, Monat. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 275. Snout Labials Sex. 2- Sex. tiouc Unoer xja"1<?ia to Tail. Ventrals. Anals. Caudals. Scales, j j ^ g entering vent. ' orbit. 610 139 176 1/1 53 17 8 4&5 Relation of Sub- Prse- prseocular Post- T e m als. N a s a l . Loreal. oculars, oculars and oculars. * frontal. $..0 1 B. Ex.1 3 + 3 2 + 3 1 1 Eecorded for the first time. The coloration is of the usual type met with ou the African coast. " This specimen was given m e by Captain Nurse, 13th Bombay Native Infantry. It was killed by one of the sepoys of the regiment when returning from field-firing." 20. TARBOPHIS GUENTHERI, u. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 3.) Dipsas obtusa, Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. N . H . (5 ser.) xx. 1887, p. 407. 1 d , 1 2 - Lahej. Snout not so broad or rounded at the point as in Tarbophis obtusus, and less broad than iu T- rhinopoma ~, but truncated as in the latter species. The rostral is much broader than in T. obtusus, and more rounded in its upper outline, and in this latter respect it more resembles T. rhinopoma than T. obtusus. The nostril is a single plate, with a cleft below it, as in the latter species; whereas in the former the nostril is perforated in a single nasal and has no cleft. The length of the frontal equals the distance between its anterior border and the tip of the snout, while in T. obtusus the length of the frontal considerably exceeds that interval, whereas in T. rhinopoma it falls short of it. In the former the lateral margins of the frontal are slightly concave, and in the latter convex; whereas in this form this shield has very slightly concave lateral borders, and is altogether broader than in T. obtusus. The greatest breadth, anteriorly, of the frontal equals the length of its supraorbital suture, while in T. obtusus it considerably exceeds the length of that suture, whereas in T. rhinopoma it equals the length of both supraorbital and parietal sutures. The parietals in their proportions exceed those of T. obtusus and of T. rhinopoma, as their extreme length nearly equals that of the frontal and parietals combined, whereas, in these two species, the parietals equal 1 Broadly excluded. 2 Conf. Boettger, Radde's Faun. Plor. Casp.-Geb. 1886, p. 72; Boulenger, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, (2 ser.) vol. xv. (xxxv.) 30 Marzo, 1893, p. 7, et Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, May 1895, p. 325. |