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RHINOSTOMA .—Fitzinger. 



Genus Rhinostoma. — Characters. Head short, small, and not distinct from 

 the neck; rostral plate large, prolonged in front, sub-acuminate, ecarinate above; 

 loral plate single; one anterior and two posterior orbital plates; superior orbital 

 not projecting; mouth small; two posterior maxillary teeth next to the last are 

 largest; body elongated and nearly cylindrical. 



RHINOSTOMA COCCmEX.—Blumenbach. 



Plate XXX. 



Characters. Head small, short; rostral plate large; a trihedral pyramid; body 

 above crimson, marked with about twenty yellow transverse bands, bordered with 

 black; abdomen beautiful silver-white. PI. 188. Sc. 39. 



Synonymes. Coluber coccineus, Blumenbach, Licht. et Voigt, vol. v. p. 10, pi. 5. 

 Coluber coccineus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. part iii. p. 1097. 

 Coluber coccineus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. vii. p. 43, pi. Ixiii. fig. 1. 

 Coluber coccineus, Latrcille, Hist, des Rept, torn. iv. p. 148. 

 Coluber coccineus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 119. 

 Heterodon coccineus, Schlegel, Phys. des Serp., torn. ii. p. 102. 



Description. The head is short, small, not quite so large as the body, with 

 the snout prolonged and pointed. The vertical plate is irregularly rhomboidal, 



