264 COLUBRIB^. 



IV. Macropopdis,— Maxillary teeth 35-40, posterior but slightly 

 enlarged. Eye very large. Body very slender. 



Fig. 16. 



Maxillary of Tropidunotus hypomelas. 



73. Tropidonotus hypomelas. 



Tropidonotus hypomelas, Giinth, Proc. Zool. Sue, 1877, p. 130, 

 %• 



Eye very large. Body very slender. Rostral twice as broad as 

 deep, scarcely visible from above; internasals longer than broad, 

 broadly truncate anteriorly, as long as the prajfrontals ; frontal 

 once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the 

 end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; 

 two prse- and three postoculars ; temporals 2-f.3 ; nine upper 

 labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. 

 Scales in 17 rows, all strongly keeled. Ventrals 196 ; anal divided ; 

 subcaudals 99-105. Brownish olive above, with small black spots, 

 and a series of pale spots along each side of the back on the pos- 

 terior two thirds of the body ; upper labials white, with black 

 sutures ; belly whitish anteriorly, black or blackish posteriorly, 

 "with a median series of black spots, one on each shield. 



Total length 960 millim. ; tail 270. 



Duke of York Island and New Britain. 



a. S (V. 196 ; C. 99). Duke of York Island. Eev. G. Brown [0.1. 



(Type.) 



b. c? (V. 196 : C. 105). New Britain. Museum Godeflfroy. 



74. Tropidonotus dendrophiops. 



Tropidonotus dendrophiops, Giint/i. Ann. ^' Maq. N. H. (5) xi. 1883, 



p. 1.36, fig. 

 hypomelas ?, F. Miiller, Verh. not. Ges. Basel, vii. 1883, 



p. 286. 



Eye very large. Habit slender, Eostral twice as broad as deep, 

 just visible from above ; internasals longer than broad, broadly 

 truncate anteriorlj', nearly as long as the prefrontals ; frontal once 

 and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of 

 the snout : loreal square ; one or two prne- and three postoculars ; 

 temporals"2-|-3 ; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering 

 the eye ; five lower labials in contact Avith the anterior chin-shields. 



