264 COLUBRID. 
IV. Macrorornts.—Maxillary teeth 35-40, posterior but slightly 
enlarged. Eye very large. Body very slender. 
Fig. 16. 
Guantnamo ee 
Maxillary of Tropidonotus hypomelas. 
73. Tropidonotus hypomelas. 
Tropidonotus hypomelas, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 130, 
fig. 
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 prefrontals; 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 pre- and three postoculars; temporals 2+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. ‘7 
a. g (V.196; C.99). Duke of York Island. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. : 
(Type.) 
b. ¢ (V.196; C. 105). New Britain. Must Godeffroy. . q 
74. Tropidonotus dendrophiops. 
eee dendrophiops, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xi. 1883, ‘ 
p. 136, fig. ; 
— hypomelas?, F. Miiller, Verh.: nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1883, 
p. 286. 
Eye very large. Habit slender. Rostral twice as broad as deep, 
just visible from above; internasals longer than broad, broadly 
truncate anteriorly, 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 pre- and three postoculars ; 
temporals 243; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering 
the eye; five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, ~ 
