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RHINOSTOMA —Fitzinger. 
Genus Ruinostoma.—Cnaracters. 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 COCCINEA.—Blumenbach. 
Plate XXX. 
Cuaracters. 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. Pl. 188. Sc. 39. 
SynonymeEs. Coluber coccineus, Blumenbach, Licht. et Voigt, vol. v. p. 10, pl. 5. 
Coluber coccineus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., tom. i. part ii. p. 1097. 
Coluber coccineus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. vii. p. 43, pl. Ixii. fig. 1. 
Coluber coccineus, Latreille, Hist. des Rept., tom. iv. p. 148. 
Coluber coccineus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 119. 
Heterodon coccineus, Schlegel, Phys. des Serp., tom. 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, 
