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 lo. Pseudoxenodon Boulenger. 



(BOULENGER, Faun. Ind. Kept, p. 340, 1 890). 



Head distinct from neck, which is dilatable (fig. 33); eye 

 large; pupil round. Maxillary teeth 20 — 28, increasing in size 

 posteriorly; the last two separated from the others by an 

 interspace and much enlarged ; mandibular teeth subequal. Body 

 round, covered with imbricate scales in 17 or 19 rows, without 

 pits, dorsals keeled, those on the anterior part of the body 

 narrow and in oblique .series; ventrals rounded. Tail moderate ; 

 subcaudals in two rows. 



Distribution. India; S. China; Java. 

 tw^ A single species in the Indo-Australian region. 



I. Pseudoxenodon inornatus (Boie). 



Xenodon inoniatits, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 541. 



Pseudoxenodon inornatus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1S93, p. 272. 



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Fig. 33. Pseudoxenodon inornatus (Boie) X *U- 

 Young specimen with black obliiiuc bands on the background. 



Rostral more broad than deep, visible from above; inter- 



