338 COLUBRID. 
2. Lycophidium acutirostre. 
Lycophidium acutirostre, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (4) i. 1868, 
p. 427, pl. xix. fig. D. 
Diameter of the eye hardly equal to its distance from the mouth, 
Rostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from above; internasals 
a little larger than the nasals; prefrontals a little broader than 
long; frontal a little longer than broad, as long as its distance from 
the end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals; loreal 
longer than deep; preocular larger than the supraocular, broadl 
in contact with the frontal; two postoculars, both in contact wit 
the parietal; temporals 1+2 or 2+3; 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 17 rows. Ventrals 140-150; anal entire; subcaudals 
18-28. Blackish brown, ‘uniform or ventrals and lateral scales 
edged with whitish; sides of the head and end of snout whitish 
with brown spots. 
Total length 295 millim. ; tail 30. 
Zanzibar. 
a-e. 3 (V. 146; C. 21) & 9 Zanzibar. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. (Types.) 
(V. 140, 143, 146, 150; 
C. 22, 24, 23, 18). 
J. Her. (V. 146; C. 28). Zanzibar. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 
3. Lycophidium laterale. 
Lycophidion Jaterale, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 58. 
a capense, var. lateralis, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges, 1888, 
p- 68. 
Diameter of the eye equal to its distance from the mouth. Ros- 
tral twice as broad as deep, visible from above; internasals hardly 
as large as the nasals; prefrontals a little longer than broad; 
frontal as long as broad or a little longer, shorter than its distance 
from the end of the snout and than the parietals; loreal longer 
than deep; preocular rather larger than, the supraocular, broadly 
in contact with the frontal ; two postoculars, both in contact with 
the parietal ; temporals 14+2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 
entering the eye, seventh largest; chin-shields very small, the 
anterior in contact with four or five lower labials. Scales in 17 
rows. Ventrals 176-188; anal entire; subcaudals 32-44. Brown 
or blackish above, uniform or with more or less distinct large pale 
brown or yellowish spots on the back; two yellow streaks on each 
side of the head, confluent with each other and with their fellows on 
the snout. 
Total length 490 millim.; tail 60. 
Coast of Guinea. 
2 (V. 186; C. 82). Acera, Gold Coast. A. Higlett, Esq. [P.]. 
a. 
b-c. g (V.178; C. 43) Cameroons. 
& Q (V.181; C.35). 
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