92. SIMOTES. 
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Holarchus, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xxiii. 1886, p. 488. 
Dicraulax, Cope, Am. Nat. 1893, p. 480. 
Maxillary teeth 8 to 12, posterior very strongly enlarged and 
compressed ; mandibular teeth subequal. 
Head short, not distinct 
from neck; eye rather small, with round pupil; rostral large. 
Body cylindrical ; scales smooth or feebly keeled, in 13 to 21 rows, 
with or without apical pits; ventrals rounded or obtusely keeled 
laterally. 
Tail short or moderate ; subcaudals in two rows. 
Southern China, East Indian continent and archipelago. 
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Skull of Simotes albocinctus. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
I. Anal entire. 
A. Portion of rostral seen from above as long as or a little shorter. 
than its distance from the frontal. 
1. Seales in 19 or 21 rows. 
a. T'wo superposed anterior temporals; fifth or fourth and 
fifth labials usually entering the eye. 
a. Four internasals ; ventrals not angulate laterally. 
1. splendidus, p. DAM: 
B. Two internasals; ventrals angulate laterally. 
Suture between the internasals as long 
as or longer than that between the 
prefrontals ; frontal large, consider- 
ably longer than its distance from the 
end of the snout 
2. purpurascens, p. 218. 
