45. LYCoPpHIDIUM. 337 
Diameter of the eye hardly equal to its dis- 
tance from the mouth; ventrals 140- 
150; subeaudals 18-28 ............ 2. acutirostre, p. 338. 
Diameter of the eye considerably greater 
than its distance from the mouth; 
ventrals 146; subcaudals 30 ........ 4. semiannulis, p. 339. 
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 Z 
164-189 ; subcaudals 28-33 ........ 6. jacksoni, p. 340. 2 
** Parietal shields not or but slightly longer than 
the distance between the frontal and the end of 
the snout ; subcaudals 37-52. 
lo. i St ees 7. irroratum, p. 340. 
UREA DOOMNLO 5.52. oct eve ens ess 8. semicinctum, p. 341. 
4. Rostral but little broader than deep; ventrals 206; sub- 
Rs a Ss Seer 9. abyssinicum, p.342. 
2. Seven upper labials, sixth largest ; ventrals 180-198; sub- 
caudals 34-56 .............. 10. fasciatum, p. '342. 
IL. Subcaudals 72; ventrals 225; loreal entering the eye. 
11. elapoides, p. 343. 
1. Lycophidium meleagris. (Prater XXI. fig. 2.) 
Lycophidion horstockii, fee Giinth, Cat. p. 197 (1858), and Ann. 
P- 
§ cu gh liga 427. 
—— horstockii, Jan, Icon. Gén, 36, pl. 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 than its dis- 
tance from the end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals ; 
loreal longer than deep; prwocular as large as or larger than the 
supraocular, broadly in contact with the frontal; two postoculars, 
both in contact with the parietal; temporals 1+2; eight upper 
labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye, seventh largest ; 
chin-shields very small, the 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 the 
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. 
re ay 153; C. 23). Ambrizette. 
(V. 155; C. 32). Ambriz. Mr. Rich [C.}. 
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