254 COLUBRID. 
2. Simophis rohdii. 
Rhinaspis rohdei, Boetty. Zeitschr. f. Naturw. (4) iv. 1885, p. 231. 
Distinguished from the preceding in having the rostral more 
pointed behind, forming a right angle; eight upper labials, fourth 
and fifth entering the eye; and scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 171; 
anal divided; subcaudals 67. Coloration same as in S. rhinostoma. 
Total length 730 millim. ; tail 140, 
Paraguay. 
98. SCAPHIOPHIS. 
Scaphiophis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, p. 644. 
Maxillary teeth very small, subequal, 12 or 13 on each side; 
mandibular teeth small, subequal. Head short, rarely distinct from 
neck, with broad, beak-shaped, hooked snout; rostral very large, 
with sharp horizontal edge, concave inferiorly; nostril a curved 
slit between two nasals; a series of suboculars; eye moderate, with 
round pupil. Body elongate; seales smooth, with apical pits, in 
21 series or more; ventrals rounded. Tail moderate or rather 
short; subcaudals in two rows, or the anterior single. 
Tropical Africa. 
1. Scaphioplis albopunctatus. 
Scaphiophis albopunctatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, p. 645, 
pl. i. fig. 4; Bocourt, Ann. Sc. Nat. (6) i. 1875, art. 3; Fischer, 
Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. ii. 1885, p. 100, pl. iii. fig. 6; Bocage, 
Jorn, Sc. Lish, xi. 1887, p. 195; Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) 
a. TOSl, pit. 
raffreyi, Bocourt, 1. c. 
The upper surface of the rostral once and a half to twice as long 
as its distance from the frontal ; internasals and prefrontals bread, 
the former as long as or a little shorter than the latter; frontal a 
little longer than broad, nearly twice as broad as the supraocular ; 
parietals broken up into four shields or more; usually two small 
superposed loreals ; one prae- and two postoculars; three suboculars, 
separating the eye from the labials ; temporals small, scale-like ; 
five upper labials, fifth very long; a single pair of large chin- 
shields, in contact with three lower labials on each side. Seales in 
25 to 31 rows on the neck, 21 to 25 on the middle of the body. 
Ventrals 210-240; anal divided; subcaudals 51-65. Pale brown 
above, uniform or spotted with black, or with whitish dots; lower 
parts white. 
Total length 960 millim. ; tail 160. 
Tropical Africa, from the coast of Guinea and the Congo to the 
Upper Nile and Abyssinia. 
a. 3d (Se. 23; V. 214; Semmio, FE. Central Herr F. Bohndorff 
C. 15). Africa. [C.}. 
