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R H I N O S T O M A ,—Fitzinocr. 



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

 the neck; rostral plate large, prolonged in front, sub-acuminate, ccarinatc 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 arc 

 largest; body elongated and nearly cylindrical. 



RHINOSTOMA COCCl^sEX.—B/mnciihach. 



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 coccincus, Blunicnbach, Liclit. et Voigt, vol. v. p. 10, ])1. 5. 

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

 Coluber coccincus, Daiidin, Hist. Nat. dcs Rcpt., torn. vii. p. 43, pi. Ixiii. fig. 1. 

 Coluber coccincus, Latreille, Hist, des Rept., torn. iv. p. 14S. 

 Coluber coccincus, Harlan, Mctl. and Pbys. Res., p. 119. 

 Hctcrodon coccincus, Schlei:;cl, Phys. dcs Scrp., torn. ii. p. 102. 



Descriptiox. The head is short, small, not (jiiitc so large as the l)ody, with 

 the snout [)rolonged and pointed. The vertical plate is irregular!}' rhomboidal. 



