45. LYCOPHIDTUM. 337 



Diameter of the eye hardly equal to its dis- 

 tance from the mouth : veutrals l-iO- 



loO ; subcaiidiils 18-28 2. acutirostre, p. 338. 



Diameter of the eye considerably greater 



than its distance i'rom the mouth ; 



ventruls 146 ; subcaudals 30 4. semianmiUs,\).33d. 



Diameter of the eye considerably greater 



than its distance from the mouth ; 



ventrals 164-192 ; subcaudals 30-45 . . 5. capense, p. 339. 

 Diameter of the eye not greater than its 



distance from the mouth ; ventrals 



164-189 ; subcaudals 28-33 6. jacl'soni, p. 340. 



** Parietal shields not or but slightly longer than 

 the distance between the frontal and the end of 

 the snout ; subcaudals 37-52. 



Ventrals 164-189 7. irromiinn, p. 340. 



Ventrals 190-210 8. semicinchon, p. 3-11. 



b. Rostral but little broader than deep ; veutrals 206 ; sub- 

 caudals 33 9. a6(/ssi«iau)i,p.342. 



2. Seven upper labials, sixth largest ; ventrals 180-198 ; sub- 

 caudals 34-56 10. fiinciatttm, p. 342. 



II, Subcaudals 72 ; ventrals 225 ; loreal entering the eye. 



11. elcijwides, p. 343. 



1. Lycophidium meleagris. (Plate XXI. fig. 2.) 



l.vcophidion liorstocldi. part., Gii>i//t. Cat. p. 197 (18-38), a«rf A/ni. 



'^- Mctij. N. H. (4) i. 1808, p. 4:.'7. 

 horstockii, Jati, Icon. Gen. '6<d, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1870). 



Diameter of the eye equal to its distance from the mouth. 

 Rostral nearly twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; 

 internasals about as large as the nasals; prefrontals a little broader 

 than long ; frontal as long as broad, a little shorter tlian its dis- 

 tance from the end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal longer than deep ; pr»ocular as large as or larger than the 

 supraocular, broadly in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars, 

 both in contact with the parietal; temporals 14-2; eight upper 

 labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye, seventh largest ; 

 chin- shields very small, tlie anterior in contact with four or five 

 lower labials. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 153-155 ; anal entire; 

 subcaudals 23-32. Black above and beneath ; a white dot on tiie 

 end of each scale, the scales on the sides white in their posterior 

 moiety ; ventrals edged with white. 



Total length 260 millim. ; tail 25. 



Angola. 



a. $ (V. 153 ; C. 23). Ambrizette. 



h. Yg. (V. loo ; C. 3i>j. Ainbiiz. Mr. Rich [C.]. 



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